Re: New book on Women's Experimental Cinema

From: Melissa Parson (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Oct 16 2007 - 10:42:35 PDT


Indeed. I did as soon as Chuck sent that email! Can't wait til it arrives. Thanks for doing this
important work!!

Melissa

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From: Adam Hyman <email suppressed>

> It behooves us all to buy copies of the first volume so that the publisher
> might entertain the idea of a second one.
>
>
> On 10/16/07 8:17 AM, "rblaetz" wrote:
>
> > Sandra, if I get to volume II or hear of anyone else doing so, I will
> > let you know!
> >
> > all best,
> > Robin
> >
> > Sandra Naumann wrote:
> >> Hi Robin,
> >>
> >> since I did my master about Bute and continue my research on her I would
> >> love to do the Bute chapter ;-)
> >>
> >> Best,
> >>
> >> Sandra Naumann
> >>
> >>
> >> Am 13.10.2007 um 17:45 schrieb rblaetz:
> >>
> >>> Owen, I would love to have had more chapters but couldn't find anyone
> >>> to commit to writing about anyone else. It would be great to have a
> >>> second volume; I will keep in touch with Duke about it.
> >>>
> >>> best regards,
> >>> Robin
> >>>
> >>> owen wrote:
> >>>> fantastic. looks great. can't wait to get it. I understand Maya
> >>>> Deren, Shirley Clarke not being there, so much written about them but
> >>>> I'd like to read more about Storm de Hirsch and the fantastic Mary
> >>>> Ellen Bute and Doris Chase and others too. Are they in there
> >>>> somewhere? I hope there's Vol 2 !
> >>>> owen
> >>>> On Oct 12, 2007, at 7:49 PM, Chuck Kleinhans wrote:
> >>>>> Women's Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks
> >>>>> Robin Blaetz
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 432 pages (September 2007)
> >>>>> 62 illustrations
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Paperback - $25.95
> >>>>>
> >>>>> [ISBN13 978-0-8223-4044-7]
> >>>>> Womenıs 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, restoration
> >>>>> and preservation. Just as importantly, they enrich the understanding
> >>>>> of feminism in cinema and expand the terrain of film history,
> >>>>> particularly the history of the American avant-garde.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ³This definitive volume on U.S. womenıs experimental cinema fills a
> >>>>> significant and long-lamented gap within film studies, and in
> >>>>> feminist film studies in particular. Together, these essays offer us
> >>>>> a richly nuanced picture not only of womenıs experimental film but
> >>>>> of avant-garde filmmaking in general from the 1940s to the
> >>>>> present.²‹Sharon Willis, author of High Contrast: Race and Gender in
> >>>>> Contemporary Hollywood Film
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Robin Blaetz is Associate Professor and Chair of the Film Studies
> >>>>> Program at Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Visions of
> >>>>> the Maid: Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ____________________________________________________
> >>>>> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at > >>>>> >.
> >>>> __________________________________________________________________
> >>>> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at .
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Robin Blaetz
> >>> Associate Professor
> >>> Film Studies Program
> >>> Mount Holyoke College
> >>> 50 College Street
> >>> South Hadley, MA 10175
> >>> 413-538-2984
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> __________________________________________________________________
> >>> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at .
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> __________________________________________________________________
> >> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at .
>
>
> __________________________________________________________________
> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at .

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