Film/TV Books Online Points of Resistance: Women, Power & Politics in the New York Avant-garde Cinema, 1943-71 by Lauren Rabinovitz. University of Illinois Press [c1991] xi, 250 p.; ill. Focusing on Maya Deren, Shirley Clarke, and Joyce Wieland, Rabinovitz illustrates how women used bold physical images to enhance their work and how each filmmaker provided entree to her subversive art while still remaining culturally acceptable. Rabinovitz combines archival materials with her own interviews to show how the women's labor and films, even their identities as women filmmakers, were produced, disseminated, and understood. The book simultaneously demonstrates the avant-garde's importance as an organizational network for women filmmakers and the processes by which women remained marginal figures within that network. Filmography: p. [226]-227. Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-241) and index. SUBJECTS: Clarke, Shirley Deren, Maya Experimental films, New York (N.Y.), History and criticism Feminism and motion pictures, New York (N.Y.) Wieland, Joyce, 1931- Women motion picture producers and directors, New York (N.Y.), Biography LC: 90010897 Class: PN1995.9.E96 ISBN: 0-252-06139-X Paper in US: $14.95 ISBN: 0-252-01744-7 Cloth in US: $34.95 If you have any questions on this title, send e-mail touipress@uiuc.edu. Select this to return to the main AAUP page.

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