The themes underlying the work of a maverick female filmmaker.

Judith Mayne, professor of French and women's studies at the Ohio State University, is the author of six books: Framed: Lesbians, Feminists, and Media Culture; Directed by Dorothy Arzner; Cinema and Spectatorship; The Woman at the Keyhole: Feminism and Women's Cinema; Kino and the Woman Question: Feminism and Soviet Silent Film; and Private Novels, Public Films.