Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Women Filmmakers -- Introduction Refocusing: Talking about (and with) Women Filmmakers -- Part 1 Women Filmmakers: Refocusing History and Theory -- 1 Women, Film, Resistance: Changing Paradigms -- 2 Refocusing Authorship in Women's Filmmaking -- 3 Women Filmmakers and the Avant-Garde: From Dulac to Duras -- 4 Cinefeminism in Its Middle Ages, or "Please, Please, Please Give Me Back My Pleasure": The 1990s Work of Sally Potter, Chantal Akerman, and Yvonne Rainer -- Part 2 Close-up on the Life and Works of Auteures from Europe -- 5 Helma Sanders Brahms: An Introduction -- 6 Interview and Excerpts from a Master Class with Helma Sanders Brahms -- 7 The Personal and the Political: Interview with Margarethe von Trotta -- 8 Changing Identity: Margarethe von Trotta's The Second Awakening of Christa Klages -- 9 Agnieszka Holland: Continuity, the Self, and Artistic Vision -- 10 The Dancing Body: Sally Potter as a Feminist Auteure -- Part 3 Women in the Mainstream: Using Popular Genres in Europe -- 11 The Vanishing Healer in Doris Dörrie's Nobody Loves Me -- 12 Women Directors and Genre Films in France -- 13 Mainstreaming the Margins in France: Three Films au Féminin -- 14 Lina Wertmüller: The Grotesque in Seven Beauties -- Part 4 Focus on Conditions of Production: Training, Funding, Distribution -- 15 Agnieszka Holland, Barbara Sass, and Dorota Ke dzierzawska in the World of Male Polish Filmmaking -- 16 The Films of Helke Misselwitz: Reconstructing Gender and Identity in the Former GDR -- 17 "Cinéma des Copines" and an Interview with Patricia Plattner -- 18 Making Feature Films: Panel Discussion with Helma Sanders Brahms (Germany), Caroline Eades (France), Patricia Plattner (Switzerland), and Anne Wheeler (Canada).

19 Making Documentary Films: Panel Discussion with Nicole Giguère, Brenda Longfellow, Loretta Todd, and Aerlyn Weissman -- Part 5 Women's Films through a Postcolonial Lens -- 20 Beyond Tradition and Modernity: Representations of Identity in Two Kenyan Films -- 21 Shuhaimi Baba and the Malaysian New Wave: Negotiating the Recuperation of Malay Custom (Adat) -- 22 Representation of Women in the Films of María Luisa Bemberg -- 23 Temporality and Identity in Sara Gómez's Documentaries -- 24 Sprung from Sisterhood: Interview with Yue- Qing Yang on Making Nu Shu: A Hidden Language of Women in China -- Part 6 National and Cultural Montages: Crossing Boundaries -- 25 An Introduction to Deepa Mehta: Making Films in Canada and India -- 26 Excerpts from a Master Class with Deepa Mehta -- 27 The Post of Colonial in the Works of Pratibha Parmar: Kiss My Chuddies -- 28 Interview and Excerpts from a Master Class with Pratibha Parmar -- 29 Documentaries Made in India: Raman Mann and Patricia Plattner -- Part 7 Representations of and by Minority Women -- 30 Women of Maghrebi Origin in Recent Films from France -- 31 Katinka Heyns: Questioning Afrikaans Culture -- 32 Making Novia que te vea: Interview with Guita Schyfter -- 33 Beyond the Homeland: Latinø- Canadian Film and the Work of Marilú Mallet and Claudia Morgado -- Part 8 Revisioning Gender and Diversity in Canada -- 34 Women Filmmakers in Quebec -- 35 Querying/Queering Stereotypes: Interview with Carole Ducharme on Making Straight from the Suburbs -- 36 Shadow and Light: First Nations Women Filmmakers -- 37 Unsettling the West: First Nations Films in British Columbia -- 38 Leaving Gender Aside: The Legacy of Studio D? -- 39 The Gender of the Gaze in Cinematography: A Woman with a Movie Camera -- Selected Film Sources -- Select Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- About the Editors -- Index.