"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."

- Virginia Woolf

"To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even when it fails.

- Adrienne Rich

Acknowledgements

This thesis was submitted to the Centre for Film Studies in the Faculty of Arts, University College Dublin in candidacy for the Degree of Master of Arts of the National University of Ireland.