...Alicia Kozma This article examines Stephanie Rothman and her career as a second-wave exploitation film director between 1966 and 1974. Marginally represented in film histories and archives, Rothman made seven films during her short career and flourished in the primarily masculinized world of second...

... female directors, Doris Wishman, and the other exploring the resurgent popularity of Russ Meyer’s aggressor- ­heroines in the context of the shifts from second- to third-wave feminism.6 Pam Cook has noted, in her critical consideration of the director Stephanie Rothman, that “exploitation film’s...