Women and Film: Women's Cinema and Film History Selected

Women and Film: Women’s Cinema and Film History Selected Bibliography

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Film Festivals

Armatage, Kay. “Fashions in Feminist Programming.” in There She Goes: Feminist Filmmaking and Beyond. Corinn Columpar and Sophie Mayer (eds). Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2010.

---. “Toronto International Women & Film 1973.” Film Festival Circuit. Dina Iordanova and Ragan Rhyne (eds). St. Andrews: College Gate Press, 2009: 82-98.

---. “The Women’s Film History Project and Women and the Silent Screen.” Screen 49.4 (Winter 2008): 462-468.

Bangré, Sambolgo. “African Cinema in the Tempest of Minor Festivals.” African Experiences in Cinema. Imruh Bakari and Mbye Cham (eds). London: British Film Institute, 1996. 157-161.

Barlow, Melinda M. “Feminism 101: the New York Women's Video Festival, 1972-1980.”Camera Obscura 18.3 (2004): 2-39.

Barrett, Michael, et. al. “Queer Film and Video Festival Forum, Take One: Curators Speak Out.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 2.4 (2005): 579-603.

Bowser, Kathryn. Aivf Guide to International Film &[and] Video Festivals. New York: FIVF - Foundation for Independent Video and Film, 1996.

Dayan, Daniel. “Looking for Sundance: The Social Construction of a Film Festival.” Moving Images, Culture, and the Mind. Ib Bondebjerg (ed.). Luton: University of Luton Press, 2003. 43-52.

Evans, Owen. “Border Exchanges: The Role of the European Film Festival.” Journal of Contemporary European Studies 15.1 (2007): 23-33.

Gamson, Joshua. The Organizational Shaping of Collective Identity: The Case of Lesbian and Gay Film Festivals in New York. New Haven, C.T: Program on Non-Profit Organizations, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, 1995.

Gann, Jon. Behind the Screens: Programmers Reveal How Film Festivals Really Work. Washington, D.C:

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Reel Plan Press, 2012.

Gaydos, Steven (ed.). The Variety Guide to Film Festivals: The Ultimate Insider's Guide to Film Festivals Around the World. New York: Berkley Pub, 1998.

Iordanova, Dina and Ruby Chong. Film Festivals and Imagined Communities. St. Andrews, Scotland: St Andrews Film Studies, 2010.

Iordanova, Dina and Ragan Rhyne (eds). Film Festival Circuit. St. Andrews: College Gate Press, 2009.

Iordanova, Dina and Leshu Torchin. Film Festivals and Activism. St. Andrews: St Andrews Film Studies, 2012.

Koehler, Robert. “Cinephilia and Film Festivals.” Dekalog 3: On Film Festivals. Richard Porton (ed.). London: Wallflower Press, 2009. 81-97.

Marlow-Mann, Alex. Archival Film Festivals. St. Andrews: St. Andrews Film Studies, 2013.

Nowlan, Robert A. and Gwendolyn W. Nowlan. An Encyclopedia of Film Festivals. Greenwich, C.T: JAI Press, 1988.

Perera, Neil I. Film Festivals: A Third World Assessment. Colombo: Cinema Asia, Cinema Africa, 1979.

Porton, Richard. On Film Festivals. London: Wallflower Press, 2009.

Ruoff, Jeffrey. Coming Soon to a Festival Near You: Programming Film Festivals. St. Andrews: St. Andrews Film Studies, 2012.

Turan, Kenneth. Sundance to Sarajevo: Film Festivals and the World They Made. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Valck, Marijke. Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007.

Wong, Cindy H. Film Festivals: Culture, People, and Power on the Global Screen. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2011.

Women Filmmakers – Pre-1970

Acker, Ally. Reel Women: Pioneers of the Cinema, 1896 to the Present. New York: Continuum, 1991.

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Armatage, Kay. The Girl from God's Country: Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.

Bean, Jennifer M. and Diane Negra (eds). A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 2002.

Bull, Sofia and Astrid S. Widding. Not so Silent: Women in Cinema Before Sound. Stockholm: Stockholms universitet, 2010.

Cooper, Mark G. Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010.

Donati, William. Ida Lupino: A Biography. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.

Guy, Alice and Anthony Slide. The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blaché. Metuchen, N.J: Scarecrow Press, 1986.

Hastie, Amelie. Cupboards of Curiosity: Women, Recollection, and Film History. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 2007.

Johnston, Claire. The Work of Dorothy Arzner: Towards a Feminist Cinema. London: British Film Institute, 1975.

Kuhn, Annette. Queen of the 'b's: Ida Lupino Behind the Camera. Westport, C.T: Greenwood Press, 1995.

Lupino, Ida and Mary A. Anderson. Ida Lupino: Beyond the Camera. Albany, G.A: Bear Manor Media, 2011.

Mahar, Karen W. Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood. Baltimore, M.A: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Mannoni, Laurent. Alice Guy, Léon Gaumont et les débuts du film Sonore. Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine: John Libbey Eurotext, 2012.

Mayne, Judith. Directed by Dorothy Arzner. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.

---. Kino and the Woman Question: Feminism and Soviet Silent Film. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1989.

McMahan, Alison. Alice Guy Blaché: Lost Visionary of the Cinema. New York: Continuum, 2002.

Shipman, Nell. Letters from God's Country: Nell Shipman, Selected Correspondence & Writings, 1912-1970. Boise, I.D: Boise State University, 2003.

--- and Tom Trusky. The Silent Screen & My Talking Heart: An Autobiography. Boise, I.D: Boise State

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University, 1987.

Simon, Joan and Jane Gaines (eds). Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

Slide, Anthony. The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors. Lanham, M.D: Scarecrow Press, 1996.

Stewart, Lucy A.L. Ida Lupino As Film Director, 1949-1953: An Auteur Approach. New York: Arno Press, 1980.

Feminist Cinema

Armitage, Kay. Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women’s Cinema. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Barlow, Melinda M. “Editor's Note on ‘dossier on Women and Video: Histories and Practices’.” Camera Obscura 18.3 (2004): 1.

---. “Fragments of a Memory." Performing Arts Journal 17.1 (1995): 49-53.

---. “Feminism 101: the New York Women's Video Festival, 1972-1980.”Camera Obscura 18.3 (2004): 2-39.

---. “Red, White, Yellow, and Black: Women, Multiculturalism, and Video History.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 17.4 (2000): 297-316.

Bell, Melanie and Melanie Williams. British Women's Cinema. London: Routledge, 2010.

Bobo, Jacqueline. Black Women Film and Video Artists. New York: Routledge, 1998.

Callahan, Vicki. Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010.

Columpar, Corinn and Sophie Mayer (eds). There She Goes: Feminist Filmmaking and Beyond. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009.

de Lauretis, Teresa. Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.

Doane, Mary Ann. Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis. New York: Routledge, 1991.

Ellerson, Beti. Sisters of the Screen: Women of Africa on Film, Video, and Television. Trenton, N.J: Africa

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World Press, 2000.

Flitterman-Lewis, Sandy. To Desire Differently: Feminism and the French Cinema. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

Foster, Gwendolyn A. Women Film Directors: An International Bio-Critical Dictionary. Westport, C.T: Greenwood Press, 1995.

---. Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997.

---, Katrien Jacobs and Amy L. Unterburger. Women Filmmakers & Their Films. Detroit: St. James Press, 1998.

Hillauer, Rebecca. Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2005.

Humm, Maggie. Feminism and Film. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.

Hurd, Mary G. Women Directors and Their Films. Westport, C.T: Praeger, 2007.

Jain, Jasbir and Sudha Rai (eds). Films and Feminism: Essays in Indian Cinema. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2002.

Jayamanne, Laleen. Kiss Me Deadly: Feminism & Cinema for the Moment. Sydney: Power Publications, 1995.

Juhasz, Alexandra. Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.

Kaplan, E.A. Feminism and Film. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

---. Women and Film: Both Sides of the Camera. London: Routledge, 1988.

Karlyn, Kathleen R. Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers: Redefining Feminism on Screen. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011.

Kuhn, Annette. Women’s Pictures: Feminism and Cinema. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1982.

Levitin, Jacqueline, Judith Plessis, and Valerie Raoul (eds). Women Filmmakers: Refocusing. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003.

Marciniak, Katarzyna, Anikó Imre, and Áine O'Healy. Transnational Feminism in Film and Media. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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Mayne, Judith. The Woman at the Keyhole: Feminism and Women's Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.

Mellencamp, Patricia. Indiscretions: Avant-garde Film, Video & Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.

Miller, Lynn F. The Hand That Holds the Camera: Interviews with Women Film and Video Directors. New York: Garland, 1988.

Pallister, Janis L. French-speaking Women Film Directors: A Guide. Madison, N.J: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997.

Penley, Constance. The Future of an Illusion: Film, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989.

---. Feminism and Film Theory. New York: Routledge, 1988.

Petro, Patrice. Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

Petrolle, Jean and Virginia W. Wexman. Women and Experimental Filmmaking. Urbana: University of Illinois, 2005.

Polan, Dana B. Jane Campion. London: British Film Institute, 2001.

Radner, Hilary. Neo-feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks and Consumer Culture. New York: Routledge, 2011.

Read, Jacinda. The New Avengers: Feminism, Femininity, and the Rape-Revenge Cycle. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.

Redding, Judith M. and Victoria A. Brownworth. Film Fatales: Independent Women Directors. Seattle: Seal Press, 1997.

Rich, B. Ruby. Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 1998.

Robertson, Pamela. Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 1996.

Smelik, Anneke. And the Mirror Cracked: Feminist Cinema and Film Theory. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.

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Sullivan, Kaye. Films For, By, and About Women. Metuchen, N.J: Scarecrow Press, 1980.

Thornham, Sue. Feminist Film Theory: A Reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999.

Waldman, Diane, and Janet Walker. Feminism and Documentary. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

Waters, Melanie. Women on Screen: Feminism and Femininity in Visual Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Women in Film and Television Production

Abramowitz, Rachel. Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?: Women's Experience of Power in Hollywood. New York: Random House, 2000.

Alley, Robert S. and Irby B. Brown. Women Television Producers: Transformation of the Male Medium. Rochester, N.Y: University of Rochester Press, 2001.

Baehr, Helen and Gillian Dyer. Boxed in: Women and Television. New York: Pandora, 1987.

Francke, Lizzie. Script Girls: Women Screenwriters in Hollywood. London: British Film Institute, 1994.

Gregory, Mollie. Women Who Run the Show: How a Brilliant and Creative New Generation of Women Stormed Hollywood. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002.

Krasilovsky, Alexis. Women Behind the Camera: Conversations with Camerawomen. Westport, C.T: Praeger, 1997.

Lauzen, Martha M. and David M. Dozier. “The Role of Women on Screen and Behind the Scenes in the Television and Film Industries: Review of a Program of Research.” Journal of Communication Inquiry 23.4 (1999): 355-373.

Lauzen, Martha M. and David M. Dozier. “Making a Difference in Prime Time: Women on Screen and Behind the Scenes in the 1995-96 Television Season.” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 43.1 (1999): 1-19.

McCreadie, Marsha. The Women Who Write the Movies: From Frances Marion to Nora Ephron. Secaucus, N.J: Carol Pub. Group, 1994.

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Seger, Linda. When Women Call the Shots: The Developing Power and Influence of Women in Television and Film. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1996.

Sova, Dawn B. Women in Hollywood: From Vamp to Studio Head. New York: Fromm International Pub, 1998.

Queer Cinema

Aaron, Michele. New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2004.

Benshoff, Harry M. and Sean Griffin. Queer Images: A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America. Lanham, M.D: Rowman & Littlefield Pub, 2006.

Grandena, Florian and Cristina Johnston. Cinematic Queerness: Gay and Lesbian Hypervisibility in Contemporary Francophone Feature Films. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2011.

Hart, Kylo-Patrick R. Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema: Becoming Visible. Lanham, M.D: Scarecrow Press, 2013.

Hays, Matthew. The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers. Vancouver, B.C: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007.

Hilderdrand, Lucas. Paris is Burning: A Queer Film Classic. Vancouver, B.C: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2013.

Juett, JoAnne C. and David M. Jones. Coming Out to the Mainstream: New Queer Cinema in the 21st Century. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010.

Kramer, Gary M. Independent Queer Cinema: Reviews and Interviews. New York: Southern Tier Editions, Harrington Park Press, 2006.

Peele, Thomas. Queer Popular Culture: Literature, Media, Film, and Television. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Perriam, Christopher. Spanish Queer Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013.

Rees-Roberts, Nick. French Queer Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008.

Rich, B. Ruby. New Queer Cinema: The Director’s Cut. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 2013.

Independent Filmmaking (History and Theory)

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Biskind, Peter. Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.

Ferncase, Richard K. Outsider Features: American Independent Films of the 1980s. Westport, C.T: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Horsley, Jake. Dogville Vs Hollywood: The War between Independent Film and Mainstream Movies. London: Marion Boyars, 2005.

Levy, Emanuel. Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film. New York: New York University Press, 1999.

LoBrutto, Vincent. The Encyclopedia of American Independent Filmmaking. Westport, C.T: Greenwood Press, 2002.

MacDonald, Scott. A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Murray, Rona. Studying American Independent Cinema. Leighton, U.K: Auteur, 2011.

Newman, Michael Z. Indie: An American Film Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.

Rosenbaum, Jonathan. Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Conspire to Limit What Films We Can See. Chicago: A Cappella, 2000.

Tzioumakis, Yannis. American Independent Cinema: An Introduction. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Independent Filmmaking (Practice)

Garon, Jon M. The Independent Filmmaker's Law and Business Guide: Financing, Shooting, and Distributing Independent and Digital Films. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2009.

Gilroy, Frank D. I Wake Up Screening!: Everything You Need to Know About Making Independent Films Including a Thousand Reasons Not to. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993.

Grove, Elliot. Raindance Producers' Lab: Lo-to-no Budget Filmmaking. Oxford, U.K: Focal Press, 2004.

Lindenmuth, Kevin J. Making Movies on Your Own: Practical Talk from Independent Filmmakers. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 1998.

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Merritt, Greg. Film Production: The Complete Uncensored Guide to Independent Filmmaking. Los Angeles: Lone Eagle Pub, 1998.

Rosen, David and Peter Hamilton. Off-Hollywood: The Making and Marketing of Independent Films. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990.

Simonelli, Rocco and Roy Frumkes. Shoot Me: Independent Filmmaking from Creative Concept to Rousing Release. New York: Allworth Press, 2002.

Stubbs, Liz, and Richard Rodriguez. Making Independent Films: Advice from the Filmmakers. New York: Allworth Press, 2000.

Film Preservation (History and Theory)

“A National Film Museum.” The Bioscope (May 26, 1910): 4.

Bland, R. Henderson. “The Need of a National Repository for Films.” Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly (April 17, 1913): 2489-2491.

Bottomore, Stephen. “'A Fallen Star': Problems and Practices in Early Film Preservation.” in This Film Is Dangerous: A Celebration of Nitrate Film. Roger Smither and Catherine A. Surowiec (eds). Brussels: Federation Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF), 2002. 185-190.

---. “The sparking surface of the sea of history: Notes on the Origins of Film Preservation.” in This Film Is Dangerous: A Celebration of Nitrate Film. Roger Smither and Catherine A. Surowiec (eds). Brussels: Federation Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF), 2002. 86-97.

Bowser, Eileen and Ronald S. Magliozzi. “Film Archiving as a Profession: An Interview with Eileen Bowser.” The Moving Image 3.1 (Spring 2003): 132-146.

Brown, Harold. “Trying to Save Frames.” in This Film Is Dangerous: A Celebration of Nitrate Film. Roger Smither and Catherine A. Surowiec (eds). Brussels: Federation Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF), 2002. 98-102.

Brown, H. G. “Problems of Storing Film for Archive Purposes.” British Kinematography 20.5 (May 1952).

Campagnoni, Donata Presenti. “The Preservation, Care, and Exploitation of Documentation Related to the Cinema: an Unresolved Issue.” Film History 18.3 (2006): 306-318.

Carey, Gary. Lost Films. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1970.

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Cherchi Usai, Paolo. The Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory and the Digital Dark Age. London: British Film Institute, 2001.

Frick, Caroline. Saving Cinema: The Politics of Preservation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

“Historic Films – The Difficulty of Preservation.” The London Times (November 26, 1916): np.

Houston, Penelope. Keepers of the Frame: The Film Archives. London: British Film Institute, 1994.

Jones, Janna. The Past Is a Moving Picture: Preserving the Twentieth Century on Film. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012.

Kula, Sam. “Up from the Permafrost: The Dawson City Collection.” in This Film Is Dangerous: A Celebration of Nitrate Film. Roger Smither and Catherine A. Surowiec (eds). Brussels: Federation Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF), 2002. 213-218.

Matuszewski, Boleslaw. “Une Nouvelle source de l’histoire (1898).” Cultures 2.1 (1974): 219-222.

McGreevey, Tom, and Joanne L. Yeck. Our Movie Heritage. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1997.

Pierce, David. “The Legion of the Condemned – Why American Silent Films Perished.” in This Film Is Dangerous: A Celebration of Nitrate Film. Roger Smither and Catherine A. Surowiec (eds). Brussels: Federation Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF), 2002. 144-162.

Shepard, David and Kyle Westphal. “Forty Years of Film Preservation: A Conversation with David Shepard.”Northwest Chicago Film Society (January 30, 2012). Accessed August 30, 2012. http://www.northwestchicagofilmsociety.org/2012/01/30/forty-years-of-film-preservation-a-co nversation-with-david-shepard/

Slide, Anthony. Nitrate Won't Wait: A History of Film Preservation in the United States. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co, 1992.

Thompson, Frank T. Lost Films: Important Movies That Disappeared. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Pub. Group, 1996.

Wasson, Haidee. Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Waldman, Harry. Missing Reels: Lost Films of American and European Cinema. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008.