Cinematic HowlingCinematic Howling presents a refreshingly unorthodoxframework for feminist film studies. Instead of criticizing mainstreammovies from feminist perspectives, Hoi Cheu focuses on womensfilmmaking itself. Integrating systems theory and feminist aestheticsin his close readings of films and screenplays by women, he considershow women engage the process of storytelling in cinema. The importanceof these films, he argues, is not merely that they reflectwomens