Women's experimental cinema: critical frameworks

Women's Experimental Cinema provides lively introductions to the work of fifteen avant-garde women filmmakers, some of whom worked as early as the 1950s and many of whom are still working today. In each essay in this collection, a leading film scholar considers a single filmmaker, supplying biographical information, analyzing various influences on her work, examining the development of her corpus, and interpreting a significant number of individual films. The essays rescue the work of critically neglected but influential women filmmakers for teaching, further study, and, hopefully.

Swing and sway: Marie Menken's filmic events / Melissa Ragona -- Different/same/both/neither: the polycentric cinema of Joyce Wieland / Paul Arthur -- Excavating visual fields, layering auditory frames: signature, translation, resonance, and Gunvor Nelson's films / Chris Holmlund -- Moving and moving: from minimalism to Lives of performers / Noël Carroll -- Eye/body: the cinematic paintings of Carolee Schneemann / M.M. Serra and Kathryn Ramey -- "Absently enchanted": the apocryphal, ecstatic cinema of Barbara Rubin / Ara Osterweil -- Amy Greenfield: film, dynamic movement, and transformation / Robert A. Haller -- Barbara Hammer: lyrics and history / Chuck Kleinhans -- Chick Strand's experimental ethnography / Maria Pramaggiore -- Amnesis time: the films of Marjorie Keller / Robin Blaetz -- In the ruins of the image: the works of Leslie Thornton / Mary Ann Doane -- Sounds, intervals, and startling images in the films of Abigail Child / Maureen Turim -- Peggy's playhouse: contesting the modernist paradigm / William C. Wees -- Su Friedrich: breaking the rules / Janet Cutler -- The experimental "dunyementary": a cinematic signature effect / Kathleen McHugh -- Women's experimental cine…