Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image

Lucy Reynolds is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media, University of Westminster, UK. She is the Editor of the Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ), and a curator and artist. Her work has been published in Afterall, MIRAJ, Screen and Screendance. Her particular interests are questions of the moving image, feminism, political space and collective practice.

Foreword, Laura Mulvey (Birbeck, University of London, UK)
Introduction: Raising Voices, Lucy Reynolds (University of Westminster, UK)
Introduction: Certain Measures, Lis Rhodes (Artist and filmmaker, UK)
Part One: Acknowledgements
In Conversation: MORE: Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz with Irene Revell
1. In a tiny realm of her own: Lotte Reiniger’s light work, Elinor Cleghorn (Independent scholar, UK)
2. Returning to Riddles, Catherine Grant (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
3. 'Being a together woman is a bitch': 'An African American woman's film' genealogy of Julie Dash's Four Women (1975), So Mayer (Freelance writer, UK)
4. Film Esperienza. The work of Marinella Pirelli, Lucia Aspesi (Pirelli HangarBicocca, Italy)
5. Prescient intersectionality: Women, moving image and identity politics in 1980s Britain, Rachel Garfield (University of Reading, UK)
Part Two: Engagements and Negotiations
In Conversation: Maria Palacios Cruz interviews Basma Alsharif
6. 'Overexposed, like an X-ray': The politics of corporeal vulnerability in Sandra Lahire's experimental cinema, Maud Jacquin (Art historian and curator, France & USA)
7. 'Look at Mother Nature on the run in the 1970s': Penelope Spheeris's I Don't Know, Erika Balsom (King's College London, UK)
8. Aesthetics of potentiality: Nguyen Trinh Thi’s Essay films, May Adadol Ingawanji (University of Westminster, UK)
9. The art of maximal ventriloquy: Femininity as labour in the films of Rachel MacLean, Sarah Neely (University of Stirling, UK) & Sarah Smith (Glasgow School of Art, UK)
Part Three: Situations and Receptions
In Conversation: Club des Femmes, Helena Reckitt: An Interview on International Women's Day 2017
10. Strategies of exposure and concealment in moving image art by women; a cross-generational account, Cate Elwes (Video artist and curator, UK)
11. Choreographing women's work: Multitaskers, smartphone users and virtuoso performers, Maeve Connolly (Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Ireland)
12. Female solidarity as uncommodified value: Lucy Beech's Cannibals and Rehana Zaman's Some Women, Other Women and all the Bittermen, Maria Walsh (Chelsea College of the Arts, University Arts London, UK)
13. Can we still talk about women artists? Melissa Gronlund (The National, USA)
Bibliography
Index