Notes on the Contributors
Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Women Filmmakers and the Welfare State
Maria Jansson, Mariah Larsson, Scott MacKenzie, and Anna Stenport

2. Canada and Sweden: Welfare States and Film Production
Maria Jansson, Mariah Larsson, Scott MacKenzie, and Anna Stenport

Art Cinema and the Woman Auteur

3. When Gender Talks: The Auteur Journey to Art Cinema Directing for Mireille Dansereau and Gunnel Lindblom
Maria Jansson and Anna Stenport

4. Love, Mai Zetterling: A Woman Auteur in a Canadian Context
Mariah Larsson

Constructing the Welfare State Child and Educational Media

5. The Filmmaker as Useful Social Animator: National and Transnational Perspectives on Stefania Borje and FilmCentrum around 1970
Lars Diurlin

6. Women in Swedish Children’s Television in the 1970s
Malena Janson and Anders Aberg

7. The Magic of Make Believe and Play in Mr. Dressup
Julia Brook and Scott MacKenzie

Geopolitics, Gender, and the Public Sphere

8. Geopolitics, the Welfare State, and Feminist Anti-War Documentary in the Nuclear Age
Scott MacKenzie and Anna Stenport

9. Loving and Not Loving Not a Love Story: Contexts of Reception in Canada and Sweden
Mariah Larsson and Scott MacKenzie

Indigenous Presences and Absences

10. It’s a Long Way from Invisibility to Visual Sovereignty: The Absence of Sami Women in Film During the 1970’s
Ragnhild Nilsson

11. ‘It Was the Voice of a Nation’: Alanis Obomsawin’s Documentary Activism in the 1970s
Joanna Hearne

Women’s Practice, Collectives, and Partnerships

12. Polyphony and Performativity in Quebec’s Video Femmes
Karine Bertrand and Claire Gray

13. Feministisch Filmkollektief Cinemien & the First International Feminist Film and Video Conference (1981): Feminist Film Activism, the Dutch Welfare State, and Global Networks
Gerdien Smit

14. Finding Zsoka Nestler: Archives, Databases, and Audiovisual Memory
Dagmar Brunow

15. Film as a Catalyst for Change: Christina Olofson on Documentary Filmmaking in the 1970s
Tove Thorslund

Experimental Film

16. Feminist Bricoleurs: Collage and the Everyday in the Early Films of Joyce Wieland and Gunvor Nelson
Shana MacDonald

17. Kay Armatage Interviews Joyce Wieland (1971)
Kay Armatage

18. Barbara Hammer’s Audience Encounters in the Early 1980s: Lesbian Potentiality and Transnational Film Feminism
Ingrid Ryberg

Index