women, power & politcs in the New york avant-garde cinema, 1943-1971
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Rabinovitz, Lauren
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B4514 - B
- Thesaurus
- films, culturele stromingen, vrouwbeelden, regisseurs, leidinggevende beroepen, steden, Verenigde Staten, 1940-1949, 1950-1959, 1960-1969, 1970-1979, biografie
- Description
- First printing 1991. At a time when there were few women directors in commercial films, the post-war avant-garde movement offered women an opportunity to express themselves through cinema. Focusing on Maya Deren, Shirley Clarke, and Joyce Wieland, Rabinovitz illustrrates how women used bold physical images to enhance their work and how each filmmaker provided entrée to her subversive art while remaining culturally acceptable. She combines archival materials with her own interviews to show how the women's labour and films, even their identities as women filmmakers, were produced and understood.