Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)

[denah johnston <denahjohnston AT gmail.com>]

Hi all,

Just a quick note to let you know my course analog before digital: punk/no wave film & music will run for a 3rd semester at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in Spring 2011.  You can see details on my Facebook note here:

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&&note_id=473031969757

Please feel free to spread the word.  If you have questions, or would like more info please feel free to contact me directly.

I am also contributing a chapter on Vivienne Dick's seminal No Wave films Guerillere Talks (which includes Pat Place, Lydia Lunch, Adele Bertei, Ikue Mori, Beate Nilsen and others) and She Had Her Gun All Ready (with Pat Place and Lydia Lunch) for a forthcoming critical volume called Burning Down the House: Downtown Film, Video and Television 1975-2001 edited by Joan Hawkins.  You can see the line-up of contributors and articles at the website:

http://www.downtownfilmanthology.com/anthology-contributors.html

Best!

-- 
:Denah A. Johnston

"The goddamn movies.  They can ruin you.  I'm not kidding."

- Holden Caufield in J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye