Published in 1996
384 pages
Sandy Flitterman-Lewis is Associate Professor of English and Cinema Studies at Rutgers University.
What is this book about?
Using biographic, historical, and textual analyses to elaborate an alternative, feminist cinematic tradition, this groundbreaking study presents an exploration of the impact of three French women filmmakers: Germaine Dulac, Marie Epstein, and Agnes Varda.
In this essential study of film and feminism, Flitterman-Lewis uses three major filmmakers to survey ways in which directors have challenged the cinematic assumptions of the patriarchy. Germaine Dulac was concerned with woman’s desire, Marie Epstein with defining a female gaze, and Agnes Varda with formulating a feminine discourse.
