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.

Rosanna Maule is Professor of Film and Moving Image in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University, Montreal.

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Gender Politics as Collective Resilience

1. Opening Spaces for Women Through Counter-Media Strategies

2. Women's Cinema as Community Practice

3. Changing Images, Creating Networks

4. Inclusivity Beyond Borders

5. The Virtual Life of Ephemera

6. Thinking Ahead: Counter-Archives for the Future