The Historical Turn of Western Feminist Film Studies and Some Postmodernist Reflections
Emerging in the 1970s and shaped by the second-wave feminist movement,feminist film theory seeks to decon-struct the relationship between women and gender in cinema by integrating feminist theories with film and cultural studies.By the early 1990s,feminist film studies began to transition from theoretical frameworks to historical analysis,with much of the early schol-arship focusing on the silent film era—a period when women held significant roles as directors,writers,and producers.However,some scholars have pointed out that feminist film theorists of the 1970s often overlooked these influential women,interpreting their absence as indicative of systemic sexism.This discrepancy between the theoretical assertion of women's"absence"and the empiri-cal evidence of their"presence"has led to tensions within feminist film studies.In response,researchers in feminist film history ad-vocate for the reconstruction of women's contributions in historical narratives by actively investigating the productive potential and possibilities of the past through empirical research.
female filmmakers in the silent film erahistorical turnfeminist film historypostmodernism
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