3 Feminist Spectatorship and Transformative Publics: Aspirations and Legacies of Feminist Film Festivals

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I Cultures of Film Consumption: Affective Spectators and Activist Audiences
6. 1 Searching for Gender in the Audience: Cultural Discourses and Opinion Surveys 15
7. 2 The Spectator in the Magazine: Cinema-going, Ideology and Femininity 27
8. 3 Feminist Spectatorship and Transformative Publics: Aspirations and Legacies of Feminist Film Festivals 39
9. 4 Patterns of (In)visibility: Lesbian and Queer Counterpublics 52
10. 5 Feminists and Porn: Protests and Campaigns 62
11. Part II Cultures of Representation: Sexuality, Race and Politics
12. 6 Asexuality and Housework in the Anthological Comedies of the Mid-1960s 73
13. 7 Ines Pellegrini: Navigating (Post)colonial Representations in the ‘Sexual Revolution’ 86
14. 8 The Beginning of the End? Depoliticised Feminism in Fellini’s City of Women 97
15. Part III Cultures of Production: Maps, Labour and Archives
16. 9 Sexism and Women’s Work: Mara Blasetti, Production Manager 107
17. 10 A Map of Open Questions: A Feminist Genealogy of Women Directors (1935–70) 121
18. 11 A Materialist Trajectory in Feminist Filmmaking: Rethinking Labour and Consciousness-raising 139
19. 12 Feminist Spaces and Knowledge Exchange: Adriana Monti’s Archive 155
20. Conclusion – Feminist Film Culture(s): Collectivities, Archives and Futures 164
21. Works Cited 168
22. Index 180