Screening Women Filmmakers is an essential collection of 58 chapters, each focusing on a single film directed by a woman-identified filmmaker, inclusively defined, from the earliest days of filmmaking (1896) to the present day, and from countries and regions around the globe.

This volume offers students and scholars an inclusive survey of woman-made cinema through diverse critical-theoretical frameworks and methodologies. Each chapter examines the aesthetic, cultural, and political dimensions of its featured film, drawing upon the multifaceted perspectives and positionalities of both filmmakers and authors. The collection's global and historical scope—from early cinema to contemporary works—provides readers with a substantive understanding of the vibrancy and versatility of women's filmmaking across different contexts and movements. As part of the Screening Cinema series, it is specifically designed as a pedagogical resource with films selected for their accessibility and suitability for classroom screening and discussion.

This book is essential reading for students and instructors in film studies, gender studies, and women's studies courses where film screenings are central to learning. It will appeal to scholars of feminist film studies and women's film history, as well as general readers interested in women's achievements behind the camera throughout cinema's past and present.

Shelley Cobb is Professor of Film and Feminist Media Studies at the University of Southampton. Cobb is the author of Adaptation, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers (2014).

Dijana Jelača is a Lecturer in the Film Department at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Jelača is the author of Dislocated Screen Memory: Narrating Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Cinema (2016) and co-author of Film Feminisms: A Global Introduction (2019).

Maria San Filippo is Professor in the School of Film, Television, & Media Arts at Emerson College. She most recently authored Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media (2021), and the Queer Film Classics volume Appropriate Behavior (2022).