Points of Resistance

by Lauren Rabinovitz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252071247
• ISBN13: 9780252071249
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"