Substantially revised for the Seventh Edition, "A History of Film" is a comprehensive international survey of film from its beginnings to the present.This book highlights the contributions of major film-producing countries, significant filmmakers, and their films within social, artistic, economic, and technological contexts. This Seventh Edition incorporates major revisions designed to improve the book's focus and update its coverage.

Acting as a corrective to the skewed avant-grade history that neglects women. "Women and Experimental Filmmaking gathers essays by some of the top scholars in cinema studies dealing with women experimental filmmakers. Tracking the topic across racial, economic, geographic, and even temporal boundaries, Jean Petrolle and Virginia Wexman's selections reflect the deep diversity of methodologies and research. The introduction sets out by addressing the basic difficulties of both historiography and definition before providing a historical overview of how these particular filmmakers have helped shape moviemaking traditions. The essays explore the major theoretical controversies that have arisen around the work of groundbreaking women such as Leslie Thornton, Su friedrich, Nina Menkes, and Faith Hubley. With the film-makers representations of women's subjectivity ranging across film, video, digital media, ethnography, animation, and collage, "Women and Experimental Filmmaking represents the full spectrum of genres, techniques, and modes. Taken together, these essays compromise a sustained analysis of the conjunction of aesthetics and polities in the work of both pioneer and contemporary experimental women filmmakers.