Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality

Girl Head shows how gender has had a surprising and persistent role in film production processes, well before the image ever appears onscreen.

For decades, feminist film criticism has focused on issues of representation: images of women in film. But what are the feminist implications of the material object underlying that image, the filmstrip itself? What does feminist analysis have to offer in understanding the film image before it enters the realm of representation?

Girl Head explores how g...