A critical companion to the work of French filmmakers Germaine Dulac, Marie Epstein, and Agnes Varda, applying feminist critical theory to the content of films such as The Smiling Mme Beudet and Cleo from 5 to 7 . Flitterman-Lewis (English and cinema, Rutgers U.) uses biographical, historical and textual analyses to pay homage to these "avatars of a female voice in the cinema" and also to propose a feminist recentering of "desire" in filmmaking, i.e women as desirous rather than localities (or objects) of desire. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.