Women Filmmakers and the Welfare State
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- ISBN 9789048569496
- Weight: 740g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 May 2026
- Publisher: Pallas Publications
- Publication City/Country: NL
- Product Form: Hardback
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Women Filmmakers and the Welfare State compares conditions for diverse women filmmakers in relation to cultural movements, politics, and welfare state policy during the long 1970s.
The book examines the expansion of women’s filmmaking and transnational collaboration across a range of genres, styles, and forms, foregrounding that film practices of the time were highly varied, ranging from women’s political and “consciousness-raising” films to fiction, art cinema, animation, documentary, experimental, and educational cinema. Welfare states such as Canada and Sweden had related, but different approaches to public support for filmmaking by women, which also influenced Indigenous, queer, and migrant and immigrant access to film production. At the height of second-wave feminism, this expansion took root through transnational collaboration as well as collectives, co-ops, activist networks, film festivals, public television, and government organizations, including in relation to environmentalist, pacifist, and UN Year and Decade of the Woman initiatives. The book includes interviews with filmmakers and also explores the current state of access, circulation, and archival practice.
This book is aimed at a scholarly audience with applicability for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as for adoption across a variety of cinema, media, gender, political science, cultural policy, transnationalism, and gender and women’s studies courses.
Anna Stenport is Professor of Communication Studies and Dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia, USA. Previously published books include Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere (ed., with Arne Lunde, 2019) and New Arctic Cinemas: Media Sovereignty and the Climate Crisis (with Scott MacKenzie, 2023).
Maria Jansson is Professor of Gender Studies at Örebro University, Sweden. She has published extensively on women’s conditions in the Swedish film sector. Recent publications include “Activism and gender equality policy in the Swedish film sector from the second wave to #metoo” (Women’s Studies International Forum, 2024).
Mariah Larsson is Professor of Film Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Publications include The Swedish Porn Scene: Exhibition Contexts, 8mm Pornography and the Sex Film (2017), A Cinema of Obsession: The Life and Work of Mai Zetterling (2020), and Handbook of Nordic Cinema (ed., with Gunnar Iversen, 2026).
Scott MacKenzie is Professor of Film and Media and Acting Vice-Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. His most recent books include Mapping the Rockumentary: Images of Sound and Fury (ed., with Gunnar Iversen, 2021), and New Arctic Cinemas: Media Sovereignty and the Climate Crisis (with Anna Stenport, 2023).
