{"product_id":"the-cinema-of-stephanie-rothman-radical-acts-in-filmmaking-9781496841001","title":"The Cinema of Stephanie Rothman: Radical Acts in Filmmaking","description":"The rare woman director working in second-wave exploitation, Stephanie Rothman (b. 1936) directed seven successful feature films, served as the vice president of an independent film company, and was the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America's student filmmaking prize. Despite these career accomplishments, Rothman retired into relative obscurity. In \u003ci\u003eThe Cinema of Stephanie Rothman: Radical Acts in Filmmaking\u003c\/i\u003e, author Alicia Kozma uses Rothman's career as an in-depth case study, intertwining historical, archival, industrial, and filmic analysis to grapple with the past, present, and future of women's filmmaking labor in Hollywood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Understanding second wave exploitation filmmaking as a transitory space for the industrial development of contemporary Hollywood that also opened up opportunities for women practitioners, Kozma argues that understudied film production cycles provide untapped spaces for discovering women's directorial work. The professional career and filmography of Rothman exemplify this claim. Rothman also serves as an apt example for connecting the structure of film histories to the persistent strictures of rhetorical language used to mark women filmmakers and their labor. Kozma traces these imbrications across historical archives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Adopting a diverse methodological approach, \u003ci\u003eThe Cinema of Stephanie Rothman \u003c\/i\u003eshines a needed spotlight on the problems and successes of the memorialization of women's directorial labor, connecting historical and contemporary patterns of gendered labor disparity in the film industry. This book is simultaneously the first in-depth scholarly consideration of Rothman, the debut of the most substantive archival materials collected on Rothman, and a feminist political intervention into the construction of film histories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlicia Kozma\u003c\/b\u003e is director of the Indiana University Cinema. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eReFocus: The Films of Doris Wishman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMobilized Identities: Mediated Subjectivity and Cultural Crisis in the Neoliberal Era\u003c\/i\u003e, and her work has been published in \u003ci\u003eMedia Industries\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFilm Comment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCamera Obscura\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTelevision and New Media\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50497314717970,"sku":"9781496841001","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cf37af8a-e2ca-4961-a163-2e95ff7cb0ea.jpg?v=1730710669","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-cinema-of-stephanie-rothman-radical-acts-in-filmmaking-9781496841001","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}