Points of Resistance: Women, Power, and Politics in the New York Avant-Garde Cinema, 1943-71 Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Points of Resistance: Women, Power, and Politics in the New York Avant-Garde Cinema, 1943-71 Book

Detailing the relationship of three women filmmakers lives and films to the institutions of the post-World War II era, this title presents the social history of North...Read More

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    In detailing the relationship of three women filmmakers' lives and films to the changing institutions of the post-World War II era, Lauren Rabinovitz has created the first feminist social history of the North American avant-garde cinema.

    At a time when there were few women directors in commercial films, the postwar avant-garde movement offered an opportunity. Rabinovitz argues that avant-garde cinema, open to women because of its marginal status in the art world, included women as filmmakers, organizers, and critics.

    Focusing on Maya Deren, Shirley Clarke, and Joyce Wieland, Rabinovitz illustrates how women used bold physical images to enhance their work and how each provided entrĂˆe to her subversive art while remaining culturally acceptable. She combines archival materials with her own interviews to show how the women's labor and films, even their identities as women filmmakers, were produced, disseminated, and understood. With a new preface and an updated bibliography, Points of Resistance simultaneously demonstrates the avant-garde's importance as an organizational network for women filmmakers and the processes by which women remained marginal figures within that network.

  • 0252071247
  • 9780252071249
  • Lauren Rabinovitz
  • 1 March 2003
  • University of Illinois Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
  • 2nd Revised edition
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