Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?

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11/13/2008 An important albeit rather too reverential appraisal of the woman and her work. Reminded me of how much "Blood and Guts in Highschool" scared the pants off me as a blushing undergraduate in the 80s. The best bit of this documentary involves Barbara Castle MP sticking it to fash literarian A.N. Wilson on some BBC talk show. She summed up what everyone should think about Acker. And Wilson's sheer incomprehension and arrogant dismissiveness sums up why Acker's death was such a great loss to the literary world. See more 10/01/2008 Kathy Acker's mind was a terribly sexy thing to taste. See more 09/29/2008 I was pretty excited to see this film and find out more about her life and gain some insight into the themes in her writing. This was a good, straightforward documentary which gives a thorough account of Kathy Acker’s life alongside personal testimonies from young women about how her work affected them, interviews with friends, footage and photographs from different stages of her career, and some appealing (partly animated) readings by a young American girl with a really nice voice. This had a lot going for it and I think it pretty accurately portrayed her intentions and influence on American culture and global feminism. Not much really groundbreaking in the format, but that’s not necessarily a criticism, and in this case it definitely isn’t. See more Read all reviews

Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?

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