Although women may have found greater film success in the areas of screenwriting, editing, design, and producing, there have been many women whose contributions

An analysis of the ways that contemporary Black women filmmakers engage in acts of resistance through their filmmaking.

Independent Female Filmmakers collects original and previously published essays, interviews, and manifestos from some of the most defining and groundbreaking in

A study of how and why women in early twentieth-century Hollywood went from having plenty of filmmaking opportunities to very few. Women Filmmakers in Early Hol

The year was 1896, the woman was Alice Guy-Blaché, and the film was The Cabbage Fairy. It was less than a minute long. Guy-Blaché, the first female director,