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The Children's Hour (1961) was the first mainstream US film to feature a lesbian character in a leading role. Julia Erhart explores how the film's conception, production, and reception reveal deep insights into the politics of sexuality and censorship in midcentury America and into social and political tensions around gender and sexuality today.

This important book fills a gap in the literature on women screen practitioners and is a long overdue response to demands for new insight into the work of Gillian Armstrong.

Defying the odds at every turn, Gillian Armstrong's sustained career over four decades has inspired two generations of women to take up filmmaking. In this timely book, Julia Erhart draws on four decades of feminist film critique to illuminate for a new generation the body of experimental, realist, biographical, documentary and period films directed by Armstrong. Erhart's knowledge of and passion for Armstrong's cinema makes compelling reading...

Analysis of how women directors explore the past from the perspective of the present.