Sustainable Resilience in Women's Film and Video Organizations

<p>This book illustrates a distinctive lineage of critical interventions in moving image culture and in the public sphere through the trajectories of a small number of film and video organizations established between the 1970s and the early 1980s in Western Europe and North America mainly by women and still operative today. </p><p>The six case studies examined (Drac Màgic Women Make Movies Groupe Intervention Vidéo Leeds Animation Workshop bildwechsel Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir) have maintained a discrete yet continuing presence within an audiovisual industry and a cultural system dominated by institutionalized and corporate forms of production and distribution. Their longevity – quite a rarity in the independent circuit – makes a strong case for the sustainability of feminist/LGBTQ media activism in the public sphere in spite of its low-key profile. </p><p>This volume will be of interest to academicians of history and communication studies feminist and LGBTQ topics and gender-related cinematic culture.</p>