The Cinema of Stephanie Rothman: Radical Acts in FilmmakingRadical Acts in Filmmaking

Abstract

Though an in-depth case study of exploitation film director Stephanie Rothman, this book examines the problems and successes of the memorialization of women's directorial labor, connecting historical and contemporary patterns of gendered labor disparity in the film industry. This book is simultaneously a theorization of the transitory industrial space of second wave exploitation film, the first in-depth scholarly consideration of Rothman, the debut of the most substantive archival materials collected on Rothman, and a feminist political intervention into the construction of film histories.