Kaleidescope: women and cinematic change from the silent era to now

We must join women's film history to the process of its theoretical reflection.This will allow us to see the crucial teen years in film history not as an inevitable step towards the longer playing narrative film, but a space in which we might explore the perceptual realities opened up and enabled by film. At the same time that we open film history to disciplines and theories 'separate' from the literary base traditionally brought to film, we must also research and explore film as a transnational undertaking. Western film history has, to date, neglected and elided a number of important regions and cinematic practices that we must now include in research and discussion.