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ALEXIS KRASILOVSKY is a Professor at California State University, Northridge, where she teaches screenwriting and film production. Her films, videos, and holograms include End of the Art World, starring Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenber, and Epicenter U., a film about surviving the Northridge Earthquake. Krasilovsky is also the author of several poetry collections, including Some Women Writers Kill Themselves.
Krasilovsky's interviews with 23 camerawomen provide a useful, informal history of a very recent phenomenon.... These conversations document women's struggle for acceptance by exploring the work lives of women who have taken on roles ranging from camera assistant to experimental filmmaker and director of photography.... All of the interviews are deeply engaging and well presented.... All academic and professional collections. -Choice A vital addition to the current literature on film. -Smith Alumnae Quarterly An excellent overview of trials and triumphs of these gifted artist/technicians. Recommended for all serious collections on cinema studies, and for women's studies programs as well. -Film Quarterly ?A vital addition to the current literature on film.?-Smith Alumnae Quarterly ?An excellent overview of trials and triumphs of these gifted artist/technicians. Recommended for all serious collections on cinema studies, and for women's studies programs as well.?-Film Quarterly ?Krasilovsky's interviews with 23 camerawomen provide a useful, informal history of a very recent phenomenon.... These conversations document women's struggle for acceptance by exploring the work lives of women who have taken on roles ranging from camera assistant to experimental filmmaker and director of photography.... All of the interviews are deeply engaging and well presented.... All academic and professional collections.?-Choice [A] significant contribution -- the kind of book that women entering film school should have to read. So should their teachers -- and so should people in the industry. -Dr. Charles Musser Director, Film Studies Program, Yale University A vital addition to the nascent film literature regarding the participation of women in the filmmaking process. Krasilovsky is a major contributor to a long neglected but most important segment of serious commentary on our industry and art form. -Eric Sherman producer, author faculty, Art Center College of Design A fascinating book for anyone, female or male, who contemplates making a career in cinematography. It offers a great wealth of insights, evaluating the rewards and the sacrifices which are facing people behind the camera in their professional and personal lives. It opens for the reader a world of strong, courageous women who are possessed by the love of film. -Kris Malkiewicz author, cinematographer faculty, California Institute of the Arts
