The Miscellany of Film History

The miscellany of film history – from scrapbooks to marginalia to cookbooks – may lead towards a more explicit understanding of the collaborative work that goes on between the historian and the subject of her analysis. Arguing that the "miscellany" is a kind of methodological model, The author argues that women's histories are inevitably dispersed across genres, forms, spaces. Drawing from these various forms and spaces, our scholarly work is based on miscellaneous acts of collection and on the collections of miscellany.