[Shirley eating] [videorecording] / Shirley Clarke. [197- or 198-]

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[Shirley eating] [videorecording] / Shirley Clarke. [197- or 198-]

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Filmmaker/videographer Shirley Clarke talks about food and her childhood while sitting at a table of food, looking at herself in a monitor.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (ca. 30 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. viewing copy.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Clarke, Shirley, 1919-1997

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Born in New York, Shirley Clarke first made waves as a dancer studying with modern choreographers like Martha Graham, Hanya Holm, and Doris Humphrey. In early short films, such as A Dance in the Sun (1953), Bullfight (1955), and Bridges Go Round (1958), she successfully fused her interests in choreography and cinema. Subsequent feature films The Connection (1961), The Cool World (1964), and Portrait of Jason (1967) were landmarks of independent cinema, charting an uncompromising path through con...