Abstract

Faced with the limited opportunities available to tell a complex story of an aging, working-class woman within the Hollywood system, filmmaker Barbara Loden made her directorial debut at thirty-eight years old with Wanda, a microbudget, neorealist portrait of a female character from a rural mining area who leaves her husband and children to drift precariously on the margins of society. Through an imagined letter to Barbara Loden, this video essay explores Loden’s directorial choices to reevaluate her singular work as a writer, director, and actor.

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