Doing Women's Film History

Research into and around women's participation in cinematic history has enjoyed dynamic growth over the past decade. A broadening of scope and interests encompasses not only different kinds of filmmaking—mainstream fiction, experimental, and documentary—but also practices—publicity, journalism, distribution and exhibition—seldom explored in the past. Cutting-edge and inclusive, Doing Women's Film History ventures into topics in the United States and Europe while also moving beyond to explore the influence of women on the cinemas of India, Chile, Turkey, Russia, and Australia. Contributors grapple with historiographic questions that cover film history from the pioneering era to the present day. Yet the writers also address the very mission of practicing scholarship. Essays explore essential issues like identifying women's participation in their cinema cultures, locating previously unconsidered sources of evidence, developing methodologies and analytical concepts to reveal the impact of gender on film production, distribution and reception, and reframing film history to accommodate new questions and approaches. Contributors include: Kay Armatage, Eylem Atakav, Karina Aveyard, Canan Balan, Cécile Chich, Monica Dall'Asta, Eliza Anna Delveroudi, Jane M. Gaines, Christine Gledhill, Julia Knight, Neepa Majumdar, Michele Leigh, Luke McKernan, Debashree Mukherjee, Giuliana Muscio, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, Rashmi Sawhney, Elizabeth Ramirez Soto, Sarah Street, and Kimberly Tomadjoglou.| Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Prologue. Constellations: Past Meets Present in Feminist Film History Part I: Searching for Sources, Rewriting Histories 1. Scandalous Evidence: Looking for the Bombay Film Actress in an Absent Archive (1930s–1940s) 2. Reading between the Lines: History and the Studio Owner's Wife 3. Imagining Women at the Movies: Male Writers and Early Film Culture in Istanbul 4. When Iris Skaravaiou Met Iris Barry: The First Greek Film Reviewer and West European Modernity 5. Searching for Mary Murillo Part II: Feminism, Politics, and Aesthetics 6. Alice Guy's Great Cinematic Adventure 7. A Major Contribution to Feminist Film History: Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki's Cinéma 8. Feminism and Women's Film History in 1980s Turkey 9. Traveling Memories: Women's Reminiscences of Displaced Childhood in Chilean Postdictatorship 10. Revising the Colonial Past, Undoing "National" Histories: Women Filmmakers in Kannada, 11. Hollywood Transgressor or Hollywood Transvestite? The Reception of Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Part III Women at Work 12. Gossip, Labor, and Female Stardom in Pre-Independence Indian Cinema: The Case of Shanta Apte 13. American Women Screenwriters in the 1920s 14. A Suitable Job for a Woman: Color and the Work of Natalie Kalmus 15. Cinema of Women: The Work of a Feminist Distributor 16. "Our Place": Women at the Cinema in Rural Australia 17. Barbara Willis Sweete: Queen of HD Transmissions Contributors Index | "Offers a differentiated and comprehensive overview of the current methodological and theoretical problem areas of film historiography no film library should be missing."—Rezens

"An innovative, culturally transformative, and historically complex collection of essays that bring together cinematography, historiography, and political and social activism: areas that have traditionally been gendered as male-dominated fields. . . . A comprehensive and fascinating study."—Feminist Media Studies

"This collection is essential for anyone researching film history and feminist historiographies."—Women's History Review
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