Salyer and Beh were aspiring filmmakers in Los Angeles when they founded it in the early 1970s.
(meta data) TITLE: The Project | The Women & Film Project (meta data) PUBLISHER: https://www.facebook.com/WordPresscom # The Women & Film Project # Menu Skip to content # The Project Women & Film, the first ever feminist film magazine, was published in California during the early 1970s. It was founded by two women, Siew-Hwa Beh and Saundra Salyer, both young, aspiring filmmakers who had been involved in the radical political movements of the previous decade, including the anti-war movement and women's liberation. Despite its informal distribution networks and financial constraints, the magazine reached innumerable readers across the United States and had subscribers from around the world. Many of the magazine's contributors went on to play major roles in the development of film theory and criticism and include scholars such as Bill Nichols, Chuck Kleinhans, Julia Lesage and Constance Penley. My project is an attempt to retrace the story of the magazine's founding, development and demise against the tumultuous backdrop of late 1960s and early 70s America, specifically US film culture and the women's movement. Rooted in the activism and counterculture of the West Coast during the 1970s, the magazine bridges the gap between the first impassioned critiques of mainstream American and European cinema informed by second wave feminism and the pioneers of the women's film movement, with the later establishment of feminist film theory and criticism and the practitioners of women's counter-cinema, such as Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen, Yvonne Rainer and Sally Potter. This blog is the online facet of my PhD thesis, begun in 2011 at Royal Holloway, University of London. It encompasses the cooperation and contributions from several of Women & Film's founders, writers and editors in tandem with my own historial investigation into the period from which it emerged. In addition to this, my study takes into account the magazine's place in the development of feminist film criticism, with reference to both early women's writing on film and the poststructuralist theories of the 1970s. ## One thought on "The Project" Pingback: a most enjoyable evening: film, feminism and delicious french beans. | teamgloria ### Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change ) Connecting to %s Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. # Follow Blog via Email Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 902 other followers # Recent Posts The Mystery of the Girl and the Gun Women's film festivals Exciting News: Women & Film magazine is now online! #womensfilmhistory Goodbye to an Outlaw An Update from The Women & Film Project # Follow Women & Film My Tweets # Find us on Facebook! Find us on Facebook! # Categories women filmmakers project meta texts and contexts contributors events films history images news people project project meta resources texts and contexts Uncategorized videos women filmmakers # Archives February 2017 December 2016 September 2016 January 2016 May 2015 February 2015 January 2015 November 2014 June 2014 May 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 September 2013 August 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 agnes varda agnes varda season art history better than twilight camera 3 camera three carol fazzio carol wikarska chairman mao chick strand christiane rochefort clarke's the connection distinguished career award exploitation movie feminist art history feminist film feminist video freude bartlett go! go! go! guerilla girls hilary robinson jean-luc godard jeanne dielman la pointe courte leontine sagan les stances a sophie linda artel linda williams madchen in uniform marie menken marilyn monroe marjorie keller moshe mizrahi positive images role models san francisco scms 2013 serious business shirley clarke sontag interview stephanie rothman susan sontag the connection varda ica varda interview velvet vampire was the revolution televised what is to be done women & film women's art women's art movement women's liberation women's movement women filmmakers August 2019 « Feb Post to Send to Email Address Your Name Your Email Address Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Email check failed, please try again Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy %d bloggers like this:
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Women in Film.
"Women in Film" was the first feminist film periodical.