In these three thematic programs by women filmmakers, Hollywood films are paired with programs of new independent film and video. Drama Queens examines the strength and variety of approaches used by pioneering women directors Dorothy Arzner and Ida Lupino, and looks at similar strategies in innovative new works by contemporary women film and videomakers. Lupino's first film, Not Wanted, is unique in its representation of the female perspective in this story of a young woman in1950s America. In Craig's Wife, Rosalind Russell plays a woman who seeks control in her life by controlling her house, obsessively devoted to the house and its objects at the expense of everything else. In the contemporary films and videos in Objects and Desire, inanimate objects and pets take on starring roles.
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