I’m currently working on a chapter about the first women’s film festivals that took place in the 1970s. I previously wrote about the very first one, The First International Festival of Women’s Films, for my MA. At the time, I interviewed its director, Kristina Nordstrom, in LA, as well as the filmmaker Amalie Rothschild, who … Continue reading
A great follow up to the obit I posted some time ago that gives a series of responses to Firestone and her contributions to the women’s movement. n 1: On Firestone. Continue reading
Just stumbled upon this brilliant resource on Foundsf.org chronicling the San Francisco State strike of 68-69. It includes first-person testimonies, primary sources and historical essays as well as some amazing pictures. Continue reading
Watched this as prep for last night’s Feminist Postgraduate Reading Group held at Senate House where we discussed Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics. Looking forward to the next one, and to Flying: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Kate Millett Continue reading
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
A PBS documentary on the Freedom Riders of the summer of 1961 A newsreel about the violence that erupted at the University of Mississippi after a black student attempted to register and the ensuing political wrangling between Kennedy and the state governor, Ross Barnett. Audio from phone conversation between Kennedy and governor Barnett Kennedy’s televised … Continue reading
Just discovered some fantastic images of Berkeley circa 1973 by the photographer Nacio Jan Brown. Check them out here http://www.josephbellows.com/artists/nacio-jan-brown/#27 Continue reading
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2011 saw the publication of two magazines that engaged with the gender imbalance in popular film journalism: Studio magazine, which describes itself as ‘the UK’s first film magazine for women – the first and only of its kind’, and New Empress, a magazine that ‘attempt[s] to take gender out of the equation a little bit and … Continue reading
The Women & Film Project 