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Are Women’s Personal Films Still Political?

Are Women’s Personal Films Still Political?

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Christopher Campbell
Mar 04, 2014
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By Sara Kaye Larson

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While not a female-exclusive filmmaking form, the personal, or autobiographical, documentary is a significant genre to women filmmakers. The rising popularity of the form coincided with the second-wave feminist movement, where women sought to transform their tradition of self-documentation (diaries, journals, letters, family albums, e…

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