Contents for 52.1

Edited by Drake Stutesman, Paul Cronin, and James Riley

Editorial

Peter Whitehead Chronology

Peter Whitehead “The Wanderer,” Part 1

DOSSIER: Early Film

Henry Miller Peter Whitehead: The Slade Years

Peter Whitehead Early Film Documents
The Theft, 12 min. Film Treatment, 1963
One of the Last Fragments
 Images, 12 min. Film Treatment, 1963
Parallelism
  from ‘New Formal Structures in the Cinema’
  from Notebook 11: Commenced January, 1964

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

Notes on the Medical Research Council Unit

The Nuffield Foundation Unit for the History of Ideas Documents

The Perception of Life, 1964, précis

The Guardian, review of The Perception of Life, 1964

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

Wholly Communion Advertisement for Lorrimer book

David Sterritt Wholly Communion: Scenario, Film, Novelization

Peter Whitehead Notes on Wholly Communion Filming

Raymond Durgnat Wholly Communion 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 Kampf

Writer’s Guild registration

Orpheus Inc., treatment

Robin Bean Charlie Is My Darling Review, 1966

DOSSIER: Whitehead Film Reviews

Peter Whitehead Film and Filming Reviews, 1966–1969

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

Thomas F. Cohen In the Rock Music Documentaries of Peter Whitehead

Tonite, New York Film Festival press release

Ray Durgnat Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London Review, 1968

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

National Film Finance letter on Tonite, 1967

Solicitor letter on Tonite, 1967

DOSSIER: Benefit of the Doubt

Michael Chanan Shooting Star: Peter Whitehead and 1960s documentarys

Peter Whitehead On In de pen dence/“More Problems than Solutions”

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

DOSSIER: Lorrimer

Peter Whitehead Letters to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1965

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Letters to Peter Whitehead, 1965

Thorold Dickinson Letter to Peter Whitehead, 1966

Peter Whitehead Letter to Thorold Dickinson, 1966

Advertisement for Lorrimer Books

Sheridan Morley Wholly Review, Lorrimer Series Review, 1966

DOSSIER: Godard

Nicole Brenez “The ultimate victims of the Romantic Dream”

Peter Whitehead Jean- Luc: I Hate You!/Godard Reviews, 1966– 1969

Contract with Godard for 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 RiversFrom 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

Peter Whitehead Protest and The Fall film treatments
Second Take of Imaginary Narration
Manifesto: Re Self in Film

John Lyle The Inner Space Project, 1970

Peter Whitehead I Destroy Therefore I Am, 1969/I Dream Therefore I Am. I Doubt Therefore I Film, 2002


Contents for 52.2

Edited by Drake Stutesman, Paul Cronin, and James Riley

Peter Whitehead “The Wanderer,” Part 2

DOSSIER: Incomplete Projects

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

Peter Whitehead Dora / Cassation

DOSSIER: Daddy

Peter Whitehead Dear Diana, film treatment for Daddy, 1972
Daddy synopsis, 1972

Laura Mulvey Daddy Introduction to Film Screening
Daddy: The Subversive Potential Of An Aesthetic Of Masochism

Molly Haskell Daddy review, Village Voice, 1973
Daddy revisited

Isabelle Jordan Cinema and Sovereign Powers: About Daddy, 1974

Joanna Bourke Peter Whitehead and Niki de Saint Phalle’s Daddy

Peter Whitehead Notes on Daddy
Letter to Niki de Saint Phalle, 1974

DOSSIER: Fire in the Water

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

Peter Whitehead Requiem for the Sixties, 1974

DOSSIER: Archiving Peter Whitehead

William Fowler Memory Material and Material Memory: the film archive of Peter Whitehead

Peter Whitehead “The Wanderer,” Part 3

DOSSIER: Falcon

Contract, 1975

Patricia Abercrombie-Little Return of the Hunter, 1988

Peter Whitehead Oedipus, King of the Falcons
Aurora
Tiresias
“White Clouds,” 1988
Falcon: Image Montage

Peter Whitehead “The Wanderer,” Part 4

DOSSIER: Fiction

James Riley The Technology of Myth: Peter Whitehead as Novelist

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

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

Peter Whitehead ‘Callanish’
Extract from Nora…
Extract from The Risen
Extract from Night trip

DOSSIER: Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts

Peter Whitehead In the Beginning Was the Image . . .
On Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts

James Riley Peter Whitehead and Terrorism

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

DOSSIER: Pottery

Peter Whitehead Going to Pot

Michael O’Brien Peter Whitehead’s Pottery

Peter Whitehead Seeing through Stone: Image Montage

BIBLIOGRAPHY

FILMOGRAPHY