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“Creating the "post-scratch" chroma-key switcher effects she has made famous, the artist inserts her body into the world of the prime time soap opera, "Dynasty," where she does her now classic performance about the ways TV spectatorship simultaneously owns and disgusts its audience. Embodying the love/hate relationships so many of us experience with the characters and values of TV, Braderman "performs" feminist and reception theory, turning the reigning ideas of her period into video vernacular. She skewers 80's obsessions with money and power and its sexual anxieties in a piece - both hilarious and terrifying..."Few have matched the bravery and wit of JOAN DOES DYNASTY.”

                                              Bob Reilly, SF MOMA

"Joan Braderman's sassy intellect and irreverent, female mouth, throwing caution to the winds - drive the images of her videotapes toward paroxysms of resistance, barely disguising, with scalpel-like irony and wit, the ways in which we should all be fed up to here with the cultural and political lies permeating daily life in these United States. You come away from her tapes invigovorated - - with a sense of possibility: for feminism, for women together, for social change, even for men and women. Some may call them wishful or utopian. I call them profoundly historical, courageous as all get out, and great fun."

Yvonne Rainer, Filmmaker 

“Videomaker Braderman uses her own body as the site for exploring the ways our own culture of appearances meets the politics of identity... "She looks at life through rose colored glasses, then whips them off and dishes the dirt: movies meet life, life meets death and romance meets Perdue chicken in this meditation on our illicit VCR pleasures. Watch and eat your heart out.”

                                                            B. Ruby Rich

“A masterpiece.”

                             Joel Kovel, The Age of Desire and History and Spirit, et al.

 

“Smart, low-budget bridge between theory and pop culture, funny and devastating at the same time."                               

                                          Philadelphia City Paper

“JOAN DOES DYNASTY has become the classic feminist performance video of the era.“

Dee Dee Halleck

“The artist's first venture into video performance is a manic enactment of the relationship of readers with tabloids. Championing gossip as "history according to women and more likely to be 'true' than the New York Times," she takes us on a schizophrenic personal narrative tour of the world according to the Enquirer.”

                                                                Martha Gever

 

"Slandering the publisher onscreen in true tabloid form, Braderman and De Landa create a style of scratch video, using sometimes vibrating, luridly framed video switcher "wipes" which both satirize and describe tabloid journalism's own glitzy style. An unreconstructed lover of tabloid fantasy, Braderman's face and body fly through the headlines and photos she loves in this brilliant and disturbing satire about popular culture and its ubiquitous place in our lives.”                                     

                               Elizabeth Hess, The Village Voice

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Almino, Elisa Wouk. “Reframing Pop Cultural Images of Women Through a Queer and Feminist Lens.” Hyperallergic, 21 Nov. 2017. 

Berkovitch, Ellen. “The Heretics, from Prince Street to Galisteo.” Adobe Airstream, 28 Jan. 2016.

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“Bodies in Crisis.” Chicago Reader, 22 Oct. 1993.

Bonamno, Carolanne. “Musing on ‘The Heretics’ – TONIGHT!” Broad Strokes: The National Museum of Women in the Arts' Blog, 30 Oct. 2009.

Budner, Miriam. “Artful Commentary:  Joan Braderman Blends the Personal and the Political in Her Video Productions." Hampshire Reports. Spring 1988.

Chang, Chris. “Damaged.” Film Comment, vol. 30, no. 1, Film Society of Lincoln Center, 1994, pp. 8–11.

Cooper, Cindy. “'The Heretics' Shows Comfort With Choice.” Words of Choice: Up the Creativity, 12 Oct. 2009.

Cornwell, Regina. “TV or Not TV.” Contemporanea International Art Magazine, Oct. 1989, pp. 58-63. 

Davidson, Jim. "Cable's 'Paper Tiger' Turns Tables on Media." The Pittsburgh Press, 1983.

 

Desjardins, Mary R. Recycled Stars: Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video. Duke University Press, 2015.

Desjardins, Mary. "Systematizing scandal: Confidential magazine, stardom, and the state of California." Headline Hollywood: a century of film scandal (2001): 206-231.

Desmett, Don, and Elizabeth Hess. In Search of the Media Monster: Gretchen Bender, Joan Braderman, Nancy Buchanan, Jenny Holzer, Jerry Kearns. Cleveland Art Gallery, Cleveland State University, 1988.

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Downes, Mary. " British Intelligence: The National Festival of Independent Video." The Independent Film/Video Monthly, April 1988.

Feuer, Jane. Seeing through the Eighties: Television and Reaganism. Duke University Press, 1996.

Fifield, George. Joan Braderman: A Video Retrospective. VideoSpace at DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Dec 1994 – Jan 1995. 

Fine, Marshall. "Documentary Shows the Central America that News Clips Don't." Rochester Times-Union, 17 May, 1984, p. 3C.

 

Fuchs, Cynthia. “The Heretics.” PopMatters, 25 Feb. 2018.

Furlong, Lucinda. “Social Engagement: Video in the '80s.” Whitney Museum of American Art. New American Film and Video Series, vol. 36, 3 Mar. 1987.

 

Furlong, Lucinda. “Image World: Metamedia.” Whitney Museum of American Art. New American Film and Video Series, vol. 49, New York City. 9 Nov. 1989.

 

Gever, Martha, director. "Meet the Press: On Paper Tiger Television." Afterimage Magazine. vol. 11, no. 4. Nov. 1983.

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Halter, Ed. “Women's Work: Ed Halter on The Heritics.” Artforum International, 5 Oct. 2009.

Hess, Elizabeth. “Tit for Tat at the Whitney.” The Village Voice, 24 Mar. 1987, p. 80.

 

Hoberman, Jim. “Best of the Whitney Biennial: Joan Does Dynasty.” The Village Voice, May 1987.

 

Hoffman, Lyz. “The Heretics: Documentary Film Explores Lives and Personalities Behind Influential Women’s Movement Magazine.” Santa Barbara Independent, 6 Feb. 2010.

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Hulser, Kathleen. “Paper Tiger Television: The New York Public Access Show That Bites Back.” American Film Magazine, Mar. 1985, pp. 61–63.

 

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Kort, Michele. “DVD Watch: The Heretics.” Ms. Magazine, 2010, p. 61.

Lamble, David. “Deep in the Heart of Disney.” The Bay Area Reporter, 6 Apr. 2010.

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Lewis, Betsy. “The Video Art of the 1980s Was Just as Weird as Everything Else That Decade.” Dallas Observer, 20 May 2016.

Lord, Catherine, and California Institute of the Arts. “Thinking Television: Low-Tech Representations.” The American Film Institute's National Video Festival: Olympic Screenings. Catalogue. 

Math, Mara. “Women’s Festival Steps Up.” CineSource Magazine, Apr. 2010.

McCabe, Jess. “The Heretics.” The F-Word, 28 Sept. 2010.

“MoMA Presents: Joan Braderman's The Heretics.” Curated by Sally Berger, Museum of Modern Art. 

New Museum, The Studio Museum of Harlem. The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s. 1990. Catalogue.

Oakley, Deborah. “Braderman is the Substance Behind All Those Images” Daily hampshire Gazette, 28 Aug. 1986, p. 9.

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Riley, Bob. “Mediated Narratives.” Currents,Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Sept. 1986. Catalogue.

 

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Seid, Steve. “BAM/PFA - Film Programs.” BAMPFA, 18 June 2003.

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Feminist Publication on Art and Politics." Women: A Cultural Review, 30:3, 280-296, DOI:

10.1080/09574042.2019.1653118. 2019

               

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Zimmermann, Patricia R. States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies. University Of Minnesota Press, 2000.

Zimmerman, William. “Artists Are Creating a Wonderland of Video in Museum Galleries.” New York Times, 1987.

Ms. Braderman has also written and spoken extensively on film, video and the politics of representation.

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