Archiving the Past

Archiving the Pastuncoversthe story of the women inFrance who, from the 1920s to the 1970s, played critical roles in the production of global cinemas history: asarchivistscharged with collecting films and other materials, aswitnessestasked with remembering their own film careers, and asactivistscommitted to recovering womens contributions to film history. Reflecting on how gender politics informs the production of film history, Aurore Spiersrecasts the film archive as a site of womens intervention, modeling strategies for inclusivity, recuperation, and liberation within feminist film historiography.