Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I cultures of film consumption : affective spectators and activist audiences -- 1 Searching for gender in the audience : cultural discourses and opinion surveys -- 2 The spectator in the magazine : cinema-going, ideology and femininity -- 3 Feminist spectatorship and transformative publics : aspirations and legacies of feminist film festivals -- 4 Patterns of (in)visibility : lesbian and queer counterpublics -- 5 Feminists and porn : protests and campaigns -- Part II Cultures of representation : sexuality, race and politics -- 6 Asexuality and housework in the anthological comedies of the mid-1960s -- 7 Ines Pellegrini : navigating (post)colonial representations in the 'sexual revolution' -- 8 The beginning of the end? Depoliticised Feminism in Fellini's City of Women -- Part III Cultures of production : maps, labour and archives -- 9 Sexism and women's work : Mara Blasetti, production manager -- 10 A map of open questions : a feminist genealogy of women directors (1935-70) -- 11 A materialist trajectory in feminist filmmaking : rethinking labour and consciousness-raising -- 12 Feminist spaces and knowledge exchange : Adriana Monti's archive -- Conclusion - Feminist film culture(s) : collectivities, archives and futures -- Works cited -- Index
Summary
Represents the first comprehensive reconstruction of Italian women's film cultures of the 1960s and '70s
