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The limits of exceptional women: the cinema of Stephanie Rothman and the trouble with archives

Kozma, Alicia

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Title
The limits of exceptional women: the cinema of Stephanie Rothman and the trouble with archives
Author(s)
Kozma, Alicia
Issue Date
2016-08-23
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Valdivia, Angharad
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Valdivia, Angharad
Committee Member(s)
  • Turnock, Julie
  • Rodriguez, Richard
  • Hay, James
Department of Study
Inst of Communications Rsch
Discipline
Communications and Media
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
  • film history
  • gender studies
  • cinema studies
  • labor studies
  • archives
  • exploitation film
  • feminist film history
  • critical cultural studies
Abstract
This dissertation examines the role of gendered authorship in the U.S. film industry and focuses on how women’s directorial labor is represented in film history and its accumulated archives. Specifically, the project evaluates women’s labor in the cinematic paradigm of second wave exploitation films—films produced under the exploitation style from 1960 to 1980—and utilizes a case study of director Stephanie Rothman to articulate the lack of industrial, disciplinary, and archival attention paid to women’s directorial labor and the reverberations of this absence on gendered labor parity in the contemporary film industry.
Graduation Semester
2016-12
Type of Resource
text
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Copyright 2016 Alicia Kozma

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