Ithaca College

Patricia Zimmermann, professor of screen studies and codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), and Claudia Pederson, assistant professor of art history at Wichita State University, published a chapter in Indie Reframed:  Women's Independent Filmmaking and Contemporary American Independent Cinema, edited by Linda Badley, Claire Perkins, and Michele Schreiber (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).

Their chapter is entitled "Beyond the Screen: On Contemporary Feminist Media Re-Articulations." 

The chapter refutes the popular culture idea that the questions of the position of women in media be centered the level of percentages of women working in commercial and independent feature film.    Instead, it proposes that an expansive international feminist media ecology is thriving in new media arts practices that challenge commercial and independent analog cinemas by moving projects beyond the screen into new interfaces and locations.   Pederson is a former screen studies faculty member at Ithaca College, and also assistant curator of new media exhibitions for FLEFF.