“Am I Providing a Good Show for You?” Female Performance, Labor and Collaborative Agency in Niki de Saint Phalle and Peter Whitehead's Daddy (1973)

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dc.contributor.authorClarke, Alissaen
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-31T16:47:58Z
dc.date.available2018-10-31T16:47:58Z
dc.date.issued2019-04-01
dc.descriptionThis paper has been recommended for publication by Feminist Media Histories in the Spring 2019 issue (vol. 5, no. 2) focused on "Sex and the Materiality of Adult Media," guest edited by Elena Gorfinkel. The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI linken
dc.description.abstractFrench artist, Niki de Saint-Phalle, and British counter-culture filmmaker, Peter Whitehead’s underground film collaboration, Daddy (1973), is a sexually explicit surrealist pop art Freudian rape revenge fantasy. It stems from De Saint-Phalle’s autobiographical narrative of parental abuse and the development of a young girl’s sexuality. Deploying a performance studies lens, this article adopts a new methodological approach to Daddy, which could be applied to other avant-garde cinematic practices. It offers a means of examining a frequently under-considered key element of labour within film, especially when employed by women. Drawing on previously unseen materials, this essay traces the skills, training and experiences shaping female performative labour. It demonstrates that Daddy’s interrogation of sexual politics and displays of female sexual expression depends on this labour. Dissecting this labour offers revealing insights into the complex, and frequently hidden, dynamics of control and agency within the artistic and sexual collaborations underpinning Daddy.en
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dc.identifier.citationClarke, A. (2019) “Am I Providing a Good Show for You?” Female Performance, Labor and Collaborative Agency in Niki de Saint Phalle and Peter Whitehead's Daddy (1973). Feminist Media Histories, 5 (2), pp.148-180en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2019.5.2.148
dc.identifier.issn2373-7492
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2086/16967
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
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dc.publisherFeminist Media Historiesen
dc.researchgroupCinema and Television History Institute (CATHI)en
dc.researchinstituteCinema and Television History Institute (CATHI)en
dc.researchinstituteInstitute of Drama, Dance and Performance Studiesen
dc.subjectNiki de Saint Phalleen
dc.subjectPeter Whiteheaden
dc.subjectDaddyen
dc.subjectFeminist filmen
dc.subjectCollaborationen
dc.subjectPerformances and performance processesen
dc.title“Am I Providing a Good Show for You?” Female Performance, Labor and Collaborative Agency in Niki de Saint Phalle and Peter Whitehead's Daddy (1973)en
dc.typeArticleen

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