Subject to Reality: Women and Documentary Film

by Shilyh Warren

Book Overview

Revolutionary thinking around gender and race merged with new film technologies to usher in a wave of women's documentaries in the 1970s. Driven by the various promises of second-wave feminism, activist filmmakers believed authentic stories about women would bring more people into an imminent revolution. Yet their films soon faded into obscurity. Shilyh Warren reopens this understudied period and links it to a neglected era of women's filmmaking that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252084349
• ISBN13: 9780252084348
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"