Review: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image, edited by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg

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Book Review| June 01 2023 Review: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image, edited by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image, edited by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg Hoor Elshafei Hoor Elshafei HOOR ELSHAFEI is a graduate student in the Film and Television Studies program at Boston University. Her research examines identity and the cultural flow in film. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar BOOK DATA Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image, edited by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022. $39.95 paper. 512 pages. Film Quarterly (2023) 76 (4): 108–109. https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2023.76.4.108 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Hoor Elshafei; Review: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image, edited by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg. Film Quarterly 1 June 2023; 76 (4): 108–109. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2023.76.4.108 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentFilm Quarterly Search BOOK DATA Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image, edited by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022. $39.95 paper. 512 pages. As a complement to the exhibition No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image, curated for the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Feminist Worldmaking and The Moving Image is a book that belongs to a long tradition of scholarly efforts that focus on practices that flourish in the shadow of the industry, often in fierce opposition to it. The book surveys the moving-image works made by and about women in defiance of commercial norms, works that seek to invent new languages to represent gendered experience. Constructed as an extensive library of moving images, the book offers ten original texts, two conversations, and eight diptychs with key historical texts appearing alongside short responses from contemporary filmmakers. Editors Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg marshal... You do not currently have access to this content.