Things Fall Apart: Peter Whitehead Issue, Parts 1& 2

Volume 52 of Framework includes two full issues dedicated to filmmaker and artist Peter Whitehead. Part 1 considers Whitehead's career through the release of his 1969 film The Fall. Part 2 begins with Whitehead's 1970s films Daddy  and Fire in the Water and ends with the completion of his latest film, Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts (UK, 2009). These issues feature rare, full-color archival materials and exclusive interviews with the famed film director Peter Whitehead. 

Table of Contents, Part 1

Editorial
Paul Cronin, James Riley, and Drake Stutesman 

Acknowledgments
Drake Stutesman

Peter Whitehead: Chronology

"The Wanderer," Part 1
Peter Whitehead

DOSSIER: EARLY FILM

Peter Whitehead: The Slade Years
Henry K. Miller

Early Film Documents
Peter Whitehead

DOSSIER: THE PERCEPTION OF LIFE

Hors d'oeuvre: Science, the Short Film, and The Perception of Life
James Leo Cahill

Peter Whitehead's The Perception of Life and the Biological Aesthetic
Catherine Zimmer

The Perception of Life Documents

DOSSIER: WHOLLY COMMUNION

Wholly Communion, Literary Nationalism, and the Sorrows of the Counterculture
Daniel Kane

Wholly Communion: Truths, Histories, and the Albert Hall Poetry Reading
Mark Donnelly

Advertisement for Wholly Communion, Lorrimer Book

Wholly Communion: Scenario, Film, and Novelization
David Sterritt

Wholly Communion: Notes on the Filming
Peter Whitehead

Wholly Communion: Films and Filming Review, 1966
Raymond Durgnat

DOSSIER: ROLLING STONES

Through the Lens, Darkly: Peter Whitehead and The Rolling Stones
Victor Coelho

Charlie Is My Darling, Press Release

Charlie Is My Darling, Review, Variety, 1966

Letters to Andrew Oldham
Peter Whitehead

Two Film Treatments: "Proposal" and Mein Campf
Peter Whitehead

The Writer's Guild of Great Britain Registration, 1971

Film Treatment: Orpheus Inc.
Peter Whitehead

Charlie Is My Darling Review, Films and Filming, 1966
Robin Bean

DOSSIER: WHITEHEAD FILM REVIEWS 

Films and Filming Reviews, 1966-1969

DOSSIER: TONITE LET'S ALL MAKE LOVE IN LONDON

Standing in the Shadow: Peter Whitehead, Swinging London's Insider/Outsider
Steve Chibnall 

Whitehead's London: Pop and the Ascendant Celebrity
Kevin M. Flanagan

Other than Vérité: Sound and Moving Image in the Rock Music Documentaries of Peter Whitehead
Thomas F. Cohen

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London, New York Film Festival Press Release

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London Review, Films and Filming, 1968
Raymond Durgnat

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London Review, Variety, 1967

National Film Finance Letter on Tonite Let's All Make Love in London, 1967

Solicitor Letter on Tonite Let's All Make Love in London, 1967

DOSSIER: BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT

Shooting Star: Peter Whitehead and 1960s Documentary
Michael Chanan

On Independence
Peter Whitehead

"More Problems than Solutions," 1967
Peter Whitehead

Interview with Peter Whitehead

An Excellent Lesson in Partisan Theater, 1968
Jean d'Yvoire

Benefit of the Doubt, Review, 1965
Nicole Zand

Benefit of the Doubt, Review, Variety, 1967

Letters about Benefit of the Doubt, 1967

DOSSIER: LORRIMER

Lorrimer Letters
Peter Whitehead, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Thorold Dickinson

Lorrimer Books Advertisement, 1967

Wholly Experience: Lorrimer Series Review, Films and Filming, 1966

DOSSIER: GODARD

"The Ultimate Doomed Victims of the Romantic Dream": Jean-Luc Godard/Peter Whitehead
Nicole Brenez

Jean-Luc: I Hate You!
Peter Whitehead

Films and Filming: Godard Reviews, 1966-1969
Peter Whitehead

Contract with Jean-Luc Godard for Lorrimer Edition of Alphaville
Peter Whitehead

The Warsaw Ghetto
Peter Whitehead

Re-creating the Gaze: Peter Whitehead's Cinema and the Films of Others
Giandomenico Curi

DOSSIER: THE FALL

From Alienation to Hallucination: Peter Whitehead's The Fall and the Politics of Perception in the 1960s
Tina Rivers

After The Fall: Politics, Representation, and the Permanence of Empire in the Cinema of Peter Whitehead
Jeremy Varon 

Peter Whitehead's The Fall Revisited
Marjorie Rosen

New York Film Festival Invitation Letter, 1967

The Fall Dossier: Extracts
Peter Whitehead

Two Film Treatments: Protest and The Fall
Peter Whitehead

Second Take of Imaginary Narration
Peter Whitehead

Manifesto: Re Self in Film
Peter Whitehead

The Inner Space Project, Review Essay, Afterimage: Film and Politics, 1970
John Lyle

I Destroy Therefore I Am . . . , Interview, Films and Filming, 1969
Peter Whitehead

I Dream Therefore I Am. I Doubt Therefore I Film, Guardian, 2002
Peter Whitehead 

Table of Contents, Part 2

Editorial
Paul Cronin, James Riley, and Drake Stutesman

Acknowledgments
Drake Stutesman

"The Wanderer," Part 2
Peter Whitehead

DOSSIER: INCOMPLETE PROJECTS

Whitehead, Djuna Barnes, and Freud's Dora: Introduction to Two Treatments
Drake Stutesman

Dora, Film Treatment
Peter Whitehead

Cassation, Film Treatment
Peter Whitehead

DOSSIER: DADDY

Dear Diana, Daddy Film Treatment, 1972
Peter Whitehead

"Daddy": A Bedtime Story, Daddy Synopsis, 1972
Peter Whitehead

Daddy: The Subversive Potential of an Aesthetic of Masochism (with Original 1974 Notes for Screening)
Laura Mulvey

Daddy 
Molly Haskell

Cinema and Sovereign Powers: About Daddy, Review, Positif, 1974
Isabelle Jordan

Peter Whitehead and Niki de Saint Phalle's Daddy (1973)
Joanna Bourke

Notes on Daddy, 1973
Peter Whitehead

Letter to Niki de Saint Phalle, 1974
Peter Whitehead

DOSSIER: FIRE IN THE WATER

Burning Passions, Flammable Decade: Cinema, Avant-Garde, Self, and Society in Fire in the Water (1977)
Laura Rascaroli

Requiem for the Sixties, Film Proposal, 1974
Peter Whitehead

DOSSIER: ARCHIVING PETER WHITEHEAD

Memory Material and Material Memory: The Film Archive of Peter Whitehead
William Fowler

"The Wanderer," Part 3
Peter Whitehead

DOSSIER: FALCON

The Saudi Arabian Falcon Breeding Centre, Contract, 1978

Peter Whitehead's Role as a Falconer, Articles, 1988

Letter from Prince Philip to Peter Whitehead, 1989

Oedipus, King of the Falcons: Dissonant Fragments of a Work in Progress
Peter Whitehead

Aurora, Film Treatment, 1980
Peter Whitehead

Tiresias, Film Treatment, 1985
Peter Whitehead

"White Clouds," Poem, 1988
Peter Whitehead

Falcon: Image Montage
Peter Whitehead

"The Wanderer," Part 4
Peter Whitehead

DOSSIER: FICTION

The Technology of Myth: Peter Whitehead as Novelist
James Riley

Sex Spy: Sexuality and the Revolution in Peter Whitehead's Post-Sixties Works
Mark Jones

The "Janus Interface": A Meditation on the Cosmology of Peter Whitehead
Jan B. Gordon

Callanish
Peter Whitehead

Novel Extracts
Peter Whitehead

DOSSIER: TERRORISM CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTS

In the Beginning Was the Image, before the Beginning Was the Avant-Garde ... 
Peter Whitehead

On Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts
Peter Whitehead

Peter Whitehead and Terrorism
James Riley

Extracts from Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts
Peter Whitehead

DOSSIER: POTTERY

Going to Pot: On the Endurance of the Earth
Peter Whitehead

Peter Whitehead's Pottery
Michael O'Brien

Seeing through Stone: Image Montage
Peter Whitehead

Bibliography

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