1st Edition

Sustainable Resilience in Women's Film and Video Organizations A Counter-Lineage in Moving Image History

By Rosanna Maule Copyright 2024
264 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book illustrates a distinctive lineage of critical interventions in moving image culture and in the public sphere through the trajectories of a small number of film and video organizations established between the 1970s and the early 1980s in Western Europe and North America mainly by women and still operative today.  The six case studies examined (Drac Màgic, Women Make Movies, Groupe... Read more

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Gender Politics as Collective Resilience

1. Opening Spaces for Women Through Counter-Media Strategies

2. Women’s Cinema as Community Practice

3. Changing Images, Creating Networks

4. Inclusivity Beyond Borders

5. The Virtual Life of Ephemera

6. Thinking Ahead: Counter-Archives for the Future

Biography

Rosanna Maule is Professor of Film and Moving Image in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University, Montreal.