Saunie Salyer
Appearance
Saunie Salyer is an American film critic. She and Siew-Hwa Beh edited the periodical Women in Film, which they founded in 1972.[1]
Women in Film
Women in Film was the first feminist film periodical. Salyer and Beh were aspiring filmmakers in Los Angeles when they founded it in the early 1970s.[2] According to Constance Penley, Professor of Film & Media Studies at UC Santa Barabara, it published "the first feminist critiques of Hollywood film," promoted alternative films, and researched women's contributions to film history.[3]
References
- ^ "Front Matter". Film Quarterly. 25 (3): 1. Spring 1972. JSTOR 1211514.
- ^ Jacob, Clarissa Kennedy. "The Project". The Women & Film Project. Retrieved March 25, 2018.
- ^ Juhasz, Alexandra, ed. (2001). "Constance Penley". Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 171. ISBN 978-0816633722.