Women's Experimental Cinema
Subtitle: Critical Frameworks
Contributors: Chuck Kleinhans (Contributor); Janet Cutler (Contributor); Kathryn Ramey (Contributor); M.M. Serra (Contributor); Melissa Ragona (Contributor); Noel  Carroll (Contributor); Robert Haller (Contributor); Scott MacDonald (Contributor); Williams Wees (Contributor); Robin Blaetz (Editor); Robin Blaetz (Editor)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: September 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9780822340232
Subjects: Feminism; Film theory & criticism; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; Film & Video - History & Criticism; ART HISTORY & CRITICISM; Film & Television Studies; Gender Studies/Feminist Theory; Experimental films; History and criticism; United States; Women motion picture producers and directors
Description: Women's Experimental Cinema provides lively introductions to the work of fifteen avant-garde women filmmakers, some of whom worked as early as the 1950s and many of whom are still working today. In each essay in this collection, a leading film scholar considers a single filmmaker, supplying biographical information, analyzing various influences on her work, examining the development of her corpus, and interpreting a significant number of individual films. The essays rescue the work of critically neglected but influential women filmmakers for teaching, further study, and, hopefully, restoration and preservation. Just as importantly, they enrich the understanding of feminism in cinema and expand the terrain of film history, particularly the history of the American avant-garde.