Downtown Cinema Revisited ~ Joan Hawkins
Acknowledgements
Downtown Body ~ Ward Shelley
 
Part I: Moments
Chapter 1: In the Movie-Viewing Machine: Essential Cinema and the 1970s ~ David Sterritt
Chapter 2: No Wavelength: The Para-Punk Underground ~ J. Hoberman
Chapter 3: At Last Real Movies: Super 8 Cinema from New York ~ Tony Conrad
Chapter 4: Downtown’s Rooms in Hotel History ~ Lynne Tillman
 
Part II: Scenes
Chapter 5: The Blank Generation and Punk/Downtown History ~ Mark Benedetti
Chapter 6: Birth of the Blank Generation ~ Ivan and Cindy Kral
Chapter 7: Downtown Godard ~ Jonathan Everett Haynes
Chapter 8: ‘A Crack in the Veneer’: A Conversation with Beth B ~ Beth B and Joan Hawkins
Chapter 9: Lydia Lunch, The Right Side of My Brain ~ Chuck Kleinhans
Chapter 10: Pleasure and Danger: Bette Gordon’s Variety ~ Joan Hawkins
Chapter 11: Interview with Bette Gordon ~ Bette Gordon and Joan Hawkins
Chapter 12: The Time of His Life: Spalding Gray ~ Laurie Stone
Chapter 13: Mixing Bag Flour, DIY, Lo-Fi, and Oulipo: Jon Moritsugu’s Mommy Mommy Where’s My Brain ~ Jack Sargeant
Chapter 14: Cast Iron TV and Friends: Artists’ Public Access in Manhattan ~ Teresa Svoboda
Chapter 15: TV Party: A Cocktail Party That Could Also be a Political Party ~ Benjamin Olin
Chapter 16: The Case of Electra Elf: Towards New Possibilities of Underground Counterculture in the Twenty-First Century ~ Nick Zedd and David Sjöberg
Chapter 17: Cock Worship: Todd Haynes, Fassbinder, and Queer Praxis ~ Chris Dumas
Chapter 18: Downtown’s Queer Asides ~ Lucas Hilderbrand, Alexandra Juhasz, Debra Levine, and Ricardo Montez
 
Part III: Memorials
Chapter 19: Canonization and No Wave Cinema History ~ Mark Benedetti
Chapter 20: The Downtown Scene in the Digital Era ~ Laurel Westrup
Chapter 21: You Had to Be There: The Downtown Archive and the Future of an Impossible Past ~ Richard Toon and Laurie Stone
Chapter 22: The Centre Cannot Hold: Blank City (2010) and the Problems of Historicizing New York’s Independent Cinema of the Late 1970s and Early 1980s ~ Juan Carlos Kase
Chapter 23: Experimental Films ~ Chris Kraus

Filmography and Videography ~ Mark Benedetti
Contributor Biographies
Index