Were it not for authoritarian state censorship, Cecilia Bartolom 's name would figure alongside those of her contemporaries Agn s Varda and Claire Denis as a pioneering feminist filmmaker of the twentieth century. With this bold claim, this book seeks both to write the history of Bartolom 's extant filmography, and speculate about censored and un-filmed work, thereby fashioning a new way of writing a feminist creative life in film.
The first...