The Scholar and the Feminist XXIII:
Women in Film: Images and Image Makers – March 28, 1998

Conference Program (PDF, 456 KB)

Morning Plenaries

Representations of Women in Film
Jami Bernard, Film Critic, The New York Daily News
Daphne Merkin, Film Critic, The New Yorker
Suzanna Danuta Walters, Department of Sociology, Georgetown University
Patricia White, Film Studies, Swarthmore College and Programming Committee, NY Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

Afternoon “Breakout” Sessions

(Regrettably, panels 6 (Latina Representations) and 9 (Russian Cinema) have been cancelled)

1. Two Funny Girls: Screening Judy Garland and Barbara Streisand
   Ann Pellegrini, Department of English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University
   Stacy Wolf, Departments of English and Theater & Dance, George Washington University
2. Mae West in Theater and Film
   Emily Wortis Leider, author of Becoming Mae West (1997)
   Lillian Schlissel, Director Americna Studies, Brooklyn College
3. Making Documentaries
   Deirdre Boyle, Graduate Media Studies Program, The New School
   Judith Helfand, Producer and Director of A Healthy Baby Girl
   Martha Sandlin, Documentary filmmaker, Guest Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College
4. Women and Horror Films
   Valerie Manenti, PhD candidate, Cinema Studies, NYU
   Isabel Pinedo, Film and Media Studies, Hunter College
   Kirsten Moana Thompson, PhD candidate in Cinema Studies, NYU
5. Carving a Movie Out of a Book: The Story of the Transformation of Cracking India Into Earth
   Bapsi Sidhwa, Novelist and visiting faculty at Mt. Holyoke and Brandeis University
6. Religion, Race, and Gender: Films in Historical Perspective
   Judith Weisenfeld, Department of Religion, Barnard College
7. Costuming and the Construction of Gender in Film
   Jane Gaines, Department of English and Literature, and Director, Film and Video Program, Duke University
   Richard Martin, Curator, The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
8. Lesbian and Film
   Martha Gever, Women’s Studies, Barnard College
   Chris Straayer, Cinema Studies, New York University
9. Women in Avant-Garde Film
   Jenifer Montgomery, Women’s Studies, Barnard College
   Yvonne Rainer, Avant-garde filmmaker and performance artist
10. How to Make a Low-Budget Feature Film
    Madeline Schwartzman, Filmmaker; Department of Architecture, Barnard College
11. From Rosa To Juana: Aesthetics and Politics of Post-1970 Feminist Film Biography
    Jane Sloan, Women’s Studies Librarian, Rutgers University

Afternoon Plenary Session

Women and the Practice of Filmmaking
Moderated by Mary-Ann Hobel, Producer, Tender Mercies, Co-Chair Hobel Productions (film production company) and The Cinema Guild, Inc. (Film distribution company)
Deborah Dickson, Independent Filmmaker. Works include Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller and Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse
Su Friedrich, Filmmaker. Directed Hide and Seek and other independent films
Leslie Harris, Screenwriter, Producer, Director of Just Another Girl on IRT
Joan Micklin Silver, Writer and Director, Hester Street; Director, Crossing Delancey
Linda Yellen, Producer, Director, Writer. Films include Northern Lights, Chantilly Lace, Sweet Bird of Youth
Debra Zimmerman, Executive Director, Women Make Movies