An essay by Visiting Assistant Professor of English Scott MacDonald serves as the concluding essay in a new book of 16 essays on experimental filmmaking by women. Women's Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks, published by Duke University Press and edited by Mt. Holyoke Associate Professor of Film Studies Robin Blaetz, includes MacDonald's essay "Women's Experimental Cinema--Some Pedagogical Challenges."
The essay provides information about the "nitty-gritty of film exhibition," according to MacDonald, and also focuses on 10 films by independent filmmakers (Yoko Ono, Anne Severson, Gunvor Nelson, Laura Mulvey, Yvonne Rainer, Cauleen Smith, Chick Strand, Babette Mangolte, Marie Menken and Sharon Lockhart), which, he argues, are particularly useful in the classroom. The films represent a wide range of approaches to cinema and chart a history of women's contributions to modern avant-garde filmmaking.
The essay provides information about the "nitty-gritty of film exhibition," according to MacDonald, and also focuses on 10 films by independent filmmakers (Yoko Ono, Anne Severson, Gunvor Nelson, Laura Mulvey, Yvonne Rainer, Cauleen Smith, Chick Strand, Babette Mangolte, Marie Menken and Sharon Lockhart), which, he argues, are particularly useful in the classroom. The films represent a wide range of approaches to cinema and chart a history of women's contributions to modern avant-garde filmmaking.
