This is the story of the first woman filmmaker and a critical analysis of her work, based on McMahan's Ph.D. thesis, which won the Union Circle of Scholars Award in 1997 and the Women in Film Award at the St. Louis International Film Festival in 2004.

New York and London: Continuum 2003. 361pp, illus.
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