fb pixcode

FILM THEORY AND SURVEYS

PUBLISHER
Spector Books

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 200 pgs / 25 color / 25 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Active

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2018 p. 149   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9783959052023 TRADE
List Price: $35.00 CAD $47.50

AVAILABILITY
In stock

TERRITORY
NA LA AFR ME

THE SPRING 2025 ARTBOOK | D.A.P. CATALOG

Artbook | D.A.P. Catalog Cover Link
Preview our SPRING 2025 catalog, featuring more than 500 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture.
  

SPECTOR BOOKS

Film Culture 80: The Legend of Barbara Rubin

By Jonas Mekas. Edited by Chuck Smith, Charity Coleman, Christian Hiller, Anne König, Sebastian Mekas, Sarai Meyron, Marc Siegel. Text by John Cavanaugh, Richard Foreman, Christian Hiller, Jonas Mekas, Ara Osterweil, Barbara Rubin, Marc Siegel, Chuck Smith, Amy Taubin.

Film Culture 80: The Legend of Barbara Rubin

Having entered the New York underground in the 1960s while still a teenager, filmmaker Barbara Rubin (1945–80) quickly became one of its key figures. Her pioneering 1963 double-projection film Christmas on Earth, featuring painted and masked performers engaging in a variety of gay and straight sexual acts, was both aesthetically innovative and sexually provocative. She worked regularly with Jonas Mekas and Andy Warhol, introduced Bob Dylan to Allen Ginsberg, and connected Warhol with The Velvet Underground. During an intense period of activity and travel, Rubin wrote passionate letters about film and the underground to Mekas.

This special 80th issue of the magazine Film Culture features her previously unpublished letters to Mekas. It also includes interviews and Rubin's script, Christmas on Earth Continued, a planned sequel to her notorious film.


Featured image is reproduced from 'Film Culture 80: The Legend of Barbara Rubin.'

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

Artforum

This new zine-like chapbook 'Film Culture 80: The Legend of Barbara Rubin' is Film Culture's first issue in over twenty years, and is dedicated to this infamous figure behind the New York underground's most sexually transfiguring film, 'Christmas on Earth' (1963-65). It features her genius handwriting, letters, poems scripts, conversations, and film stills.

Film Culture 80: The Legend of Barbara Rubin

in stock  $35.00


Free Shipping

UPS GROUND IN THE CONTINENTAL U.S.
FOR CONSUMER ONLINE ORDERS

FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/29/2018

'Film Culture 80: The Legend of Barbara Rubin' Launch at Printed Matter

'Film Culture 80: The Legend of Barbara Rubin' Launch at Printed Matter

Saturday, September 15 from 5-7 PM, Printed Matter presents the launch of Film Culture 80: The Legend of Barbara Rubin, published by Spector Books. The program will include a conversation between experimental filmmaker & Film Culture Editor in Chief Jonas Mekas and project editor Marc Siegel.
continue to blog


FORTHCOMING AND NEW: FILM AND VIDEO BOOKS

Mapping the Moving Image

MAPPING THE MOVING IMAGE

Spector Books

ISBN: 9783959058438
USD $40.00
| CAD $60

Pub Date: 4/29/2025
Active | In stock


Read Frame Type Film

READ FRAME TYPE FILM

MUBI Editions

ISBN: 9798991658010
USD $55.00
| CAD $82

Pub Date: 6/24/2025
Forthcoming


In Medias Res #3: Postproductions

IN MEDIAS RES #3: POSTPRODUCTIONS

Mousse Publishing

ISBN: 9788867495313
USD $10.00
| CAD $15

Pub Date: 3/11/2025
Active | In stock


Temporal Territories: An Anthology on Indigenous Experimental Cinema

TEMPORAL TERRITORIES: AN ANTHOLOGY ON INDIGENOUS EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA

Light Industry

ISBN: 9780997910223
USD $25.00
| CAD $38 UK £ 21

Pub Date: 4/8/2025
Active | In stock


Slander!

SLANDER!

Set Margins' publications

ISBN: 9789083404134
USD $25.00
| CAD $35

Pub Date: 2/11/2025
Active | In stock


After Cinema

AFTER CINEMA

Hatje Cantz

ISBN: 9783775757843
USD $50.00
| CAD $71

Pub Date: 1/7/2025
Active | In stock


German Film

GERMAN FILM

Hatje Cantz

ISBN: 9783775757850
USD $125.00
| CAD $185

Pub Date: 1/7/2025
Active | In stock


Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema

COLOR IN MOTION: CHROMATIC EXPLORATIONS OF CINEMA

DelMonico Books/Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

ISBN: 9781636811307
USD $55.00
| CAD $79 UK £ 50

Pub Date: 10/8/2024
Active | In stock


Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures through Cinema

CYBERPUNK: ENVISIONING POSSIBLE FUTURES THROUGH CINEMA

DelMonico Books/Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

ISBN: 9781636811314
USD $45.00
| CAD $62 UK £ 40

Pub Date: 10/22/2024
Active | In stock


Bollywood Superstars

BOLLYWOOD SUPERSTARS

Kaph Books

ISBN: 9786148035524
USD $39.95
| CAD $55.95

Pub Date: 3/21/2023
Active | In stock


Picturing Austrian Cinema: 99 Films/100 Comments

PICTURING AUSTRIAN CINEMA: 99 FILMS/100 COMMENTS

Spector Books

ISBN: 9783959055666
USD $45.00
| CAD $63

Pub Date: 5/30/2023
Active | In stock


Vampire Cinema: The First One Hundred Years

VAMPIRE CINEMA: THE FIRST ONE HUNDRED YEARS

Reel Art Press

ISBN: 9781909526884
USD $49.95
| CAD $64.95

Pub Date: 10/25/2022
Active | In stock