Cover: Beverly Garland and Beulah from It Conquered the World, one of Roger Corman's early cheapster movies and part of the director's ongoing critique of science. Corman's autobiography How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost A Dime, is reviewed in this special book issue, together with recent publications on women's cinema, Hollywood and the Vietnam War, Asian Canadian media, television culture and feminism and avant-garde media.


Table of Contents:

FEATURES

Girl Watching - review of The Woman at the Keyhole: Feminism and Women's Cinema

Corman Unbound - review of How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime

Double Exposure - review of Indiscretions: Avant-Garde Film, Video and Feminism and Logics of Television: Essays in Cultural Criticism

Visions of an Asian New World - review of Yellow Peril: Reconsidered

Missing in Action - review of From Hanoi to Hollywood: The Vietnam War in American Film

MEDIA CLIPS

Pictures at an Exhibition: New Film Venues in Los Angeles, Boston and New York City

CPB's Multicultural Monies in the Pipeline

Gay and Lesbian Fund Established

Film Finders Play the Data Game

Kodak Develops New Talent

Sequels

FIELD REPORTS

Beyond Toontown: Video Art for Younger Audiences

Continental Catalyst: The European Documentary Film Institute

TALKING HEADS

Geechee Girl Goes Home: Julie Dash on Daughters of the Dust

Cover: Trihh T. Minh-Ha uses structures drawn from fiction, poetry, and memory to challenge the rhetoric of traditional documentary.

In this issue, Laleen Jamayane and Anne Rutherford interview Trinh about the fictions at the heart of the documentary form.



Table of Contents:

FEATURES

Why A Fish Pond? An Interview with Trinh T. Minh-ha

MEDIA CLIPS

Back Into the Act: SAG's Limited Exhibition Agreement

Doubts Plague Bay-Area Minority TV Project

Pew Comes Through For Philly's

National Video Resourcefulness

Sequels

FIELD REPORTS

Little Big Fest: The Locarno International Film Festival

BOOK REVIEWS

A Diary of a Young Soul Rebel

Capitalism and Communication: Global Culture and the Economics of Information

LEGAL BRIEFS

Out on the Town: Location Agreements and Public Permits

TALKING HEADS

Pregnant With Dreams: Julia Barco's Feminist Visions from Latin America