The Moving Image Source Calendar is a selective international guide to retrospectives, screenings, festivals, and exhibitions.
Descriptions are drawn from the calendars of the presenting venues.
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No She Didn’t!: Women Exploitation Auteurs
July 17-August 30, 2009 at
UCLA Film and Television Archive
, Los Angeles
In the 1970s and '80s, something funny happened on the way to the grindhouse. With women still sorely under-represented in the directorial ranks of the "New Hollywood," a number of women began working as writer-directors in the low-budget world of exploitation films. Following in the footsteps of exploitation queen Doris Wishman, filmmakers Stephanie Rothman, Amy Holden Jones, Barbara Peters, and Beverly Sebastian delivered on the genre's requisite demands for sex and violence while their films each revealed distinctive, often subversive, sensibilities at work within the bounds of exploitation's commercial expectations. While transitioning into the mainstream still proved challenging for the filmmakers represented in this series, they remain, in the words of film scholar Pam Cook, "renegade outsiders" whose "influence can be felt in low-budget independent material produced by younger feminists today."
Featured Works:
Bad Girls Go to Hell (Doris Wishman, 1965); Another Day, Another Man (Doris Wishman, 1966); Bury Me an Angel (Barbara Peters, 1972); Gator Bait (Beverly Sebastian, 1973, pictured); Terminal Island (Stephanie Rothman, 1973); The Slumber Party Massacre (Amy Holden-Jones, 1982)
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