Women and experimental filmmaking / edited by Jean Petrolle and Virginia Wright Wexman

Includes bibliographical references and index

The introduction sets out by addressing the basic difficulties of both historiography and definition, before providing a historical overview of how these particular filmmakers have helped shape moviemaking traditions. The essays explore the major theoretical controversies that have arisen around the work of groundbreaking women, such as Leslie Thornton, Su Friedrich, Nina Menkes, and Faith Hubley. With the film-makers' re-presentations of women's subjectivity ranging across film, video, digital media, ethnography, animation, and collage, "Women and Experimental Filmmaking" represents the full spectrum of genres, techniques, and modes. Taken together, these essays comprise a sustained analysis of the conjunction of aesthetics and politics in the work of both pioneer and contemporary experimental women filmmakers