Download or read book Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices written by S. Tay and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-09 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women on the Edge re-envisions women's cinema as contemporary political practices by exploring the works of twelve filmmakers. Moving on from the 1970s feminist adage that the personal is political, Sharon Lin Tay argues that contemporary women's cinema must exceed the personal to be politically relevant and ethically cogent.