Women & Film

Women & Film, published in California between 1972 and 1975,[1] was the first feminist film magazine, "a project that would transform cinema".[2]

Women & Film was coedited by Siew-Hwa Beh, a Malaysian immigrant to the United States studying filmmaking at UCLA,[2] and Saunie Salyer, who was involved in a local women's collective. It was originally planned as a special issue of the collective's magazine, Every Woman.[3] The opening editorial announced a thorough-going socialist-feminist critique of the U.S. film industry:

The U.S. cinema, joining hands with local capitalists in other countries, has deformed people everywhere, forcing them to be passive consumers of an alienating ideology but not creators of their own ideology.[2]

Within days all 600 copies of the first issue sold out. The magazine, which did not take advertisement, eventually closed facing financial and organizational problems. [3]

References
  1. Frank Manchel (1990). Film Study: An Analytical Bibliography. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. pp. 481–2. ISBN 978-0-8386-3186-7.
  2. David James (2005). The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles. University of California Press. pp. 354–5. ISBN 978-0-520-93819-9.
  3. B. Ruby Rich (1998). Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement. Duke University Press. pp. 386–7. ISBN 0-8223-2121-1.
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