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Announcing! 'Mothers of Invention: Parenting &/as Filmmaking Practice'

Corinn Columpar Sophie Mayer Remember   Corinn Columpar   and  Sophie Mayer 's book, There She Goes: Feminist Filmmaking & Beyond , back in 2009?  Corinn followed There She Goes with Unsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film  (2010) and Sophie wrote Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema (2015) (WW interview here ) as well as The Cinema of Sally Potter: The Politics of Love . I love their activist writing and editing work about #womeninfilm, with its emphasis on intersectionality and rigour and its love of women's onscreen stories. Sophie-as-interlocutor in one of her many activist roles Now Corinn and Sophie are back together for a new collection,  Mothers of Invention: Parenting and/as Filmmaking Practice ! And they're calling for contributions. This is how they explain the ideas behind  Mothers of Invention  and what they're looking for– In 1983, E. Ann Kaplan famously called second-wave feminist film cultu...