Notes on Women’s Cinema (Screen Pamphlet series, No. 2)

40pp booklet in printed light card covers.  8vo.  Covers are worn and faded, markedly around the spine, slightly rubbed at corners and spine ends.  Some spotting on text block edges.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring some minor signs of handling.

Claire Johnston was a British film theorist.  Her 1973 Notes on Women’s Cinema is considered a landmark publication in feminist film theory, containing several foundational texts including Women’s Cinema as Counter Cinema of critique of film Realism and Cinema Verite in feminist film-making.  Instead of simply complaining about and observing how women film-makers and directors were treated, Johnston set out a theoretical blueprint challenging how films where shot, edited and funded which heavily influenced filmmakers through the 1970s and 1980s.   Intended as transitionary pamphlet, and cheaply produced on a small print run, there are few surviving copies.