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THINGS FALL APART: PETER WHITEHEAD ISSUE, PART I
Edited by Drake Stutesman, Paul Cronin, and James Riley
Peter Whitehead: Chronology
Peter Whitehead
“The Wanderer,” Part 1
Meritaten in Cambridge
DOSSIER
Early Film
Henry K. Miller
Peter Whitehead: The Slade Years
Peter Whitehead
Early Film Documents,
The Theft, Film Treatment, 1963
One of the Last Fragments, 1963
Images, Film Treatment, 1963,
Parallelism, Manifesto, 1963
From New Formal Structures in the Cinema, 1963
The Muddle
From Notebook 11: Commenced 14.1.64
DOSSIER
The Perception of Life
James Leo Cahill
Hors d’œuvre: Science, the Short Film, and The Perception of Life
Catherine Zimmer
Peter Whitehead’s The Perception of Life and the Biological Aesthetic
The Perception of Life Documents
Peter Whitehead’s Notes on The Medical Research Council Unite
The Nuffield Foundation Unit for the History of Ideas: The Perception of Life, 1964, Précis
Uncovering Science by Films, the Guardian Review of The Perception of Life, 1964
Film History of Ideas: Nuffield Foundation Unit Series, the Times Review of The Perception of Life, 1964
DOSSIER
Wholly Communion
Daniel Kane
Wholly Communion, Literary Nationalism, and the Sorrows of the Counterculture
Mark Donnelly
Wholly Communion: Truths, Histories and the Albert Hall Poetry Reading
Advertisement forWholly Communion, Lorrimer book
David Sterritt
Wholly Communion: Scenario, Film, Novelization
Peter Whitehead
Wholly Communion: Notes on the Filming
Raymond Durgnat
Wholly Communion: Films and Filming Review, 1966
DOSSIER
Rolling Stones
Victor Coelho
Through the Lens, Darkly: Peter Whitehead and The Rolling Stones
Charlie is My Darling, Press Release
Charlie Is My Darling, Review, Variety, 1966
Peter Whitehead
Letters to Andrew Oldham
Peter Whitehead
Two Film Treatments: ‘Proposal’ and Mein Campf
The Writer’s Guild of Great Britain Registration, 1971
Peter Whitehead
Film Treatment: Orpheus Inc.
Robin Bean
Charlie Is My Darling Review, Films and Filming, 1966
DOSSIER
Whitehead Film Reviews
Peter Whitehead
Film and Filming Reviews, 1966–1969
Thomas the Imposter
Paris vu par…
Coogan’s Bluff
The Sergeant
Theorem
Oedipus Rex
DOSSIER
Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London
Steve Chibnall
Standing in the Shadow: Peter Whitehead, Swinging London’s Insider/Outsider
Kevin M. Flanagan
Whitehead’s London: Pop and the Ascendant Celebrity
Thomas F. Cohen
Other Than Vérité: Sound and Moving Image in the Rock Music Documentaries of Peter Whitehead
Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London
Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London, New York Film Festival Press Release
Raymond Durgnat
Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London Review, Films and Filming,1967
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
Michael Chanan
Shooting Star: Peter Whitehead and 1960s Documentary
Peter Whitehead
On Independence
Peter Whitehead
“More Problems than Solutions,” 1967
Interview with Peter Whitehead
Jean d’Yvoire
An Excellent Lesson in Partisan Theater, 1968
Nicole Zand
Benefit of the Doubt, Review, 1965
Benefit of the Doubt, Review, Variety, 1967
Letters about Benefit of the Doubt, 1967
DOSSIER
Lorrimer
Lorrimer Letters
Peter Whitehead to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1965-1966
Lawrence Ferlinghetti to Peter Whitehead, 1965
Thorold Dickinson to Peter Whitehead, 1966
Peter Whitehead to Thorold Dickinson, 1966
Lorrimer Books Advertisement, 1967
Sheridan Morley
Wholly Experience: Lorrimer Series Review, Films and Filming, 1966
DOSSIER
Godard
Nicole Brenez
“The Ultimate Doomed Victims of the Romantic Dream”: Jean-Luc Godard/Peter Whitehead
Peter Whitehead
Jean- Luc: I Hate You!
Peter Whitehead
Films and Filming: Godard Reviews, 1966–1969
Pierrot le Fou
A Woman is a Woman
Weekend
One Plus One
Peter Whitehead
Contract with Jean-Luc Godard for Lorrimer Edition of Alphaville
Peter Whitehead
The Warsaw Ghetto
Giandomenico Curi
Re-Creating The Gaze: Peter Whitehead’s Cinema and the Films of Others
DOSSIER
The Fall
Tina Rivers
From Alienation to Hallucination: Peter Whitehead’s The Fall and the Politics of Perception in the 1960s
Jeremy Varon
After The Fall: Politics, Representation, and the Permanence of Empire in the Cinema of Peter Whitehead
Marjorie Rosen
Peter Whitehead’s The Fall Revisited
New York Film Festival Invitation Letter, 1967
Peter Whitehead
Two Film Treatments: Protest and The Fall
Peter Whitehead
Second Take of Imaginary Narration
Peter Whitehead
Manifesto: Re Self in Film
John Lyle
The Inner Space Project, Review Essay, Afterimage: Film and Politics, 1970
Peter Whitehead
I Destroy Therefore I Am…, Interview, Films and Filming, 1969
Peter Whitehead
I Dream Therefore I Am. I Doubt Therefore I Film, Guardian, 2002
Excerpt from the Editorial
Peter Whitehead is the quintessence of eclecticism. Though best known as a filmmaker whose body of work from the second half of the sixties is a vital documentation of the era’s countercultural expression in London and New York, Whitehead has also worked as an artist, publisher, and—most spectacularly, in Saudi Arabia for nearly a decade—a royal falconer. He is currently most active as a novelist and potter. This scope is clearly evident in his film work, which ranges from pop promos to long-form narrative cinema. He has produced documentaries, fiction films, and projects that blur the line between the two. […]
—Paul Cronin, James Riley, and Drake Stutesman
