HAMMER! is the first book by influential filmmaker Barbara Hammer; whose life and work have inspired a generation of queer; feminist; and avant-garde artists and filmmakers. The wild days of non-monogamy in the 1970s; the development of a queer aesthetic in the 1980s; the fight for visibility during the culture wars of the 1990s; and her search for meaning as she contemplates mortality in the 2000smdash;HAMMER! includes texts from these periods; new writings; and fully contextualized film stills to create a memoir as innovative and disarming as her work has always been.HAMMER! was the winner for the 2010 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction.
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