CONTENTS

Editors: Drake Stutesman, Paul Cronin, and James Riley

 

Peter Whitehead Chronology

Peter Whitehead “The Wanderer,” Part 1

Editorial

 

 

DOSSIERS

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 FragmentsImages, 12 min. Film Treatment, 1963, Parallelism
from ‘New Formal Structures in the Cinema’ 

from Notebook 11: Commenced January, 1964

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

Two Film Treatments: ‘Proposal’ and Mein Kampf

Writer’s Guild registration

Orpheus Inc., treatment

 

Robin Bean 

Charlie Is My Darling Review, 1966

 

 

Whitehead Film Reviews

Peter Whitehead 

Film and Filming Reviews, 1966–1969

 

 

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, 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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

The Warsaw Ghetto

 

Giandomenico Curi 

Re-Creating The Gaze: Peter Whitehead’s Cinema and the Films of Others

 

 

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

 

Peter Whitehead 

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

I Destroy Therefore I Am, 1969

I Dream Therefore I Am. I Doubt Therefore I Film, 2002

 

John Lyle 

The Inner Space Project, 1970

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTENTS

Edited by Drake Stutesman, Paul Cronin, and James Riley

 

Peter Whitehead 

“The Wanderer,” Part 2

 

 

DOSSIERS

Incomplete Projects

Drake Stutesman

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

 

Peter Whitehead 

Dora / Cassation

 

 

Daddy

Peter Whitehead 

Dear Diana, film treatment for Daddy, 1972 

Daddy synopsis, 1972

Notes on Daddy
Letter to Niki de Saint Phalle, 1974

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

Archiving Peter Whitehead

William Fowler 

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

 

Peter Whitehead 

“The Wanderer,” Part 3

 

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

“The Wanderer,” Part 4

 

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

 

 

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

 

Pottery

Peter Whitehead 

Going to Pot

 

Michael O’Brien 

Peter Whitehead’s Pottery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peter Whitehead 

Seeing through Stone