Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue. Constellations: Past Meets Present in Feminist Film History
Part I: Searching for Sources, Rewriting Histories
1. Scandalous Evidence: Looking for the Bombay Film Actress in an Absent Archive (1930s–1940s)
2. Reading between the Lines: History and the Studio Owner’s Wife
3. Imagining Women at the Movies: Male Writers and Early Film Culture in Istanbul
4. When Iris Skaravaiou Met Iris Barry: The First Greek Film Reviewer and West European Modernity
5. Searching for Mary Murillo
Part II: Feminism, Politics, and Aesthetics
6. Alice Guy’s Great Cinematic Adventure
7. A Major Contribution to Feminist Film History: Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki’s Cinéma
8. Feminism and Women’s Film History in 1980s Turkey
9. Traveling Memories: Women’s Reminiscences of Displaced Childhood in Chilean Postdictatorship
10. Revising the Colonial Past, Undoing “National” Histories: Women Filmmakers in Kannada,
11. Hollywood Transgressor or Hollywood Transvestite? The Reception of Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt
Part III Women at Work
12. Gossip, Labor, and Female Stardom in Pre-Independence Indian Cinema: The Case of Shanta Apte
13. American Women Screenwriters in the 1920s
14. A Suitable Job for a Woman: Color and the Work of Natalie Kalmus
15. Cinema of Women: The Work of a Feminist Distributor
16. “Our Place”: Women at the Cinema in Rural Australia
17. Barbara Willis Sweete: Queen of HD Transmissions
Contributors
Index