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
Filmography