POINTS OF RESISTANCE Philippe C. Schmitter Both engagements bolstered national confidence

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POINTS OF RESISTANCE Philippe C. Schmitter Both engagements bolstered national confidenceIn detailing the relationship of three women filmmakers' lives and films to the changing institutions of the post World War II era, Lauren Rabinovitz has created the first feminist social history of the North American avant garde cinema. At a time when there were few women directors in commercial films, the postwar avant garde movement offered an opportunity. Rabinovitz argues that avant garde cinema, open to women because of its marginal status in