Leaving San Francisco felt like saying goodbye to something bigger. Sounds dramatic, but America is a dramatic place. Even the train was dramatic – bigger and better than any train I’d ever been on. As we rattled up the West Coast it made it all the more clear how vast the country is. We had … Continue reading
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From Vietnam to Video: Notes on Jane Fonda’s Films and Activism, 1970-1982 by Peter Krämer At the beginning of 1970, Jane Fonda, who had recently turned 32, received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for the Depression-era drama They Shoot Horses, Don’t…
I just came across For The Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism, a documentary directed by Gerald Peary in a bibliography. Now I need to find a copy to watch! Here’s a link to the film’s website. Continue reading
Please register for the conference by clicking on the registration link in the sidebar. Despite its immense achievements, the women’s liberation movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s has been minimally documented in print or on film. In recent years, however, celebrations of the movement’s accomplishments have proliferated and new films have revived interest … Continue reading
CFP: Flying: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Kate Millett Flying: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Kate Millett 30 May 2014 School of Arts Birkbeck, University of London Supported by Feminist Review Trust Keynote: Victoria Hesford (SUNY Stony Brook University), author of Feeling Womens Liberation (Duke UP, 2013) Papers are invited for an interdisciplinary conference dedicated to the work … Continue reading
