Women’s History Month – Women Film Directors

Week of March 1, 2010 (updated version)

In the News: To kick off Women’s History Month, we offer titles on women film directors. Kathryn Bigelow, the first woman to receive the Director’s Guild of America Award for Best Feature Film, is one of the nominees for this year’s Oscar for Best Director (The Hurt Locker, 2009). She is only the fourth woman to be nominated in this category and, this Sunday, could become the first ever winner.

Black Women Film and Video Artists
Edited by Jacqueline Bobo.  Routledge, 1998
Call Number: PN1998.2 .B57 1998

Calling the Shots
Produced and Directed by Janis Cole and Holly Dale.  Direct Cinema, 1989
Call Number: VH 967

Calling the Shots: Profiles of Women Filmmakers
By Janis Cole and Holly Dale.  Quarry Press, 1993
Call Number: PN1995.9.W6 C64 1993

Cinematic Howling: Women’s Films, Women’s Film Theories
By Hoi F. Cheu.  UBC Press, 2007
Call Number: PN1995.9.W6 C44 2007

Feminist Auteurs: Reading Women’s Films
By Geetha Ramanathan.  Wallflower, 2006
Call Number: PN1995.9.W6 R355 2006

Film Fatales: Independent Women Directors
By Judith M. Redding and Victoria Brownworth.  Seal Press, 1997
Call Number: PN1998.2 .R43 1997

The Films of Jane Campion
Produced and Directed by Jane Campion.  Women Make Movies, 1982.
Call Number: VH 3488

Francophone Women Film Directors: A Guide
By Janis L. Pallister and Ruth A. Hottell.  Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005
Call Number: PN1998.2 .P27 2005

French-speaking Women Documentarians: A Guide
By Janis L. Pallister and Ruth A. Hottell.  Peter Lang, 2005
Call Number: PN1998.2 .P277 2005

French-speaking Women Film Directors: A Guide
By Janis L. Pallister.  Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Associated University Presses, 1997
Call Number: PN1998.2.P28 1997

In the Mirror of Maya Deren
Produced by Johannes Rosenberger.  Zeitgeist Video, 2004
Call Number: PN1998.3.D47 I62 2004

Jane Campion
By Kathleen Anne McHugh.  University of Illinois Press, 2007
Call Number: PN1998.3.C3545 M38 2007

Jane Campion
By Dana B. Polan.  British Film Institute, 2001
Call Number: PN1998.3.C3545 P64 2001

Jane Campion
By Deb Verhoeven.  Routledge, 2009
Call Number: PN1998.3.C3545 V47 2009

Leni: the Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl
By Steven Bach.  A. A. Knopf, 2007
Call Number: PN1998.3.R54 B33 2007

Liv Ullmann: Interviews
By Liv Ullmann, edited by Robert Emmet Long.  University Press of Mississippi, 2006
Call Number: PN2768.U4 A3 2006

Notes on a Life
By Eleanor Coppola.  Doubleday, 2008
Call Number: PN1998.3.C6699 A3 2008

The Origins of Film. [Disc 3], America’s First Women Film Makers; Origins of the Gangster Film (DVD)
Composed and performed by Philip Carli.  Unapix Entertainment, Image Entertainment, 2001
Call Number: PN1993.5.U6 O7524 2001 (At Boca Raton Media Center)

The St. James Women Filmmakers Encyclopedia: Women on the Other Side of the Camera
Edited by Amy L. Unterburger.  Visible Ink Press, 1999
Call Number: PN1998.2.S683 1999

Women and Experimental Filmmaking
Edited by Jean Petrolle and Virginia Wright Wexman.  University of Illinois, 2005
Call Number: PN1995.9.E96 W66 2005

Women Directors and their Films
By Mary G. Hurd.  Praeger, 2007
Call Number: PN1998.2 .H86 2007
Also available online via NetLibrary

Women Directors: The Emergence of a New Cinema
By Barbara Koenig Quart.  Praeger, 1988
Call Number: PN1995.9.W6 Q37 1988

Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood
By Karen Ward Mahar.  Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006
Call Number: PN1995.9.W6 M32 2006

Women Filmmakers in Mexico: The Country of which We Dream
By Elissa Rashkin.  University of Texas Press, 2001
Call Number: PN1993.5.M4 R33 2001

Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity
By Gwendolyn Audrey Foster.  Southern Illinois University Press, 2007
Call Number: PN1998.2 .F672 1997

Women Filmmakers: Refocusing
Edited by Jacqueline Levitin, Judith Plessis, and Valerie Raoul.  UBC Press, 2002
Call Number: PN1995.9.W6 W65 2003

Women, Film, and Oceans a/part: The Critical Humor of Tracey Moffatt, Monica Pellizzari, and Clara Law
By Alessandra Senzani.  Thesis (Ph.D.); Florida Atlantic University, 2008.
Call Number: NX001.5 .S459 2008
Also available online via NetLibrary

Women’s Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks
Edited by Robin Blaetz.  Duke University Press, 2007.
Call Number: PN1995.9.E96 W68 2007