Another must for the feminist bookshelf. Unprecedented and long-awaited, this detailed, comprehensive analysis of this first film "in the feminine" will, like the film itself, offer hours of endless contemplation and fascination. - Sandy Flitterman - Lewis, Author of To Desire Differently: Feminism and the French Cinema

Catherine Fowler's intricate and compassionate reading of Jeanne Dielman's feminist poetics, politics and aesthetics is a very welcome addition to the BFI Classics series. Long considered a cardinal work of art with regard to the feminist filmmaking canon, I am delighted to see this entirely unique and subversive film finally getting the attention it deserves from this series. This book will be a vital resource to feminist film scholars and students as well as film enthusiasts. It contains extensive historical and contextual detail that serves to re-position Dielman as a film brought into being through feminist collaboration and alliance. Fowler attends carefully to Seyrig's astonishing gestural performance and the precise mechanics of Akerman's use of space and time to build a profound and generous reading of this much-loved film. Highly recommended. - Anna Backman Rogers. University of Gothenburg, Sweden