FILM 441/WMST 441 Women and Film (Carr)

This book explores the factors contributing to the under-representation of African American female directors in mainstream cinema leadership. It also unmasks the potential strategies African American female film directors might pursue to reduce this inequity.

Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers is groundbreaking edited collection which explores the contributions of Francophone African women to the field of documentary filmmaking.

In this edited volume, Kasi Lemmons, the first African-American woman auteur to solidly and steadily produce a full body of work in cinema--an oeuvre of quality, of note, of international recognition--will get the full film-studies treatment.

'A marvelous and timely book on Morocco's national treasure Farida Benlyazid. An elegant and playful spiral structure accommodates Martin's deep understanding of Benlyazid's many contexts, from the socioeconomic to the spiritual.' --Laura Marks, Simon Fraser University, Canada 'Florence Martin has achieved an into-depth exploration of a unique and unequalled Moroccan female cineaste-biography. Well-written, nuanced and historically informed.' --Viola Shafik, Independent scholar and filmmaker, Berlin, Germany and Cairo, Egypt

The conversations compiled within Sofia Coppola: Interviews mark the filmmaker's progression from dismissed dilettante to acclaimed auteur of among the most visually arresting, melancholy, and wryly funny films of the twenty-first century.