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From: hsu@csrd.uiuc.edu (William Tsun-Yuk Hsu)
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Subject: Re: women's movies - definition
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Peter Reiher:

>I think that what Ann and other women would
>want is not equal screen time for women, or cameras following women, or
>women getting the good lines, or women as protagonists, but rather female
>control of the creative process...  That is precisely
>what women have rarely had.  Even when they had it, they never were able
>to combine creative freedom with resources that come close to equalling what
>Hollywood rolls out for a major film.

I'd like to add as a footnote that in independent film circles, where
resources are limited for everybody, there are many respected woman
filmmakers. One of the more recent success stories is Rene Tajima
and Christine Choy's complex and sophisticated _Who Killed Vincent 
Chin?_, a powerful documentary with some similarities with the
work of British collectives Sankofa and Black Audio Film Collective.
(Incidentally, both of these groups have important female members
and are mostly comprised of racial minorities.)

Bill