Barbara Mennel is the Rothman Chair and Director of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere at the University of Florida. Mennel's books include Women at Work in Twenty-first Century European Cinema and Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys.
This insightful book restores filmmaker Su Friedrich's key role in American experimental cinema, along with the New York feminist and lesbian cultural and activist contexts that shaped it. Friedrich's associative style, personal content, and precision editing remind us that formalism has politics and politics has form. This comprehensive account challenges existing histories of American experimental film. --Patricia White, author of Women's Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms