Paris was a woman [videorecording] / Jezebel Productions & Cicada Films in association with Salzgeber Medien ; produced by Greta Schiller, Andrea Weiss, and Frances Berrigan; written and researched by Andrea Weiss ; directed by Greta Schiller.

Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Zeitgeist Films [distributor], 2003.

Description: 1 videodisc (75 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject: Women and literature France Paris History 20th century.
Women artists France Paris History 20th century.
Women intellectuals France Paris Biography.
Women authors, American France Paris History 20th century.
Women authors, English France Paris History 20th century.
Lesbians France Paris Biography.
Lesbian community France Paris History.
Documentary films.
Paris (France) Intellectual life 20th century.
Rive gauche (Paris, France) Intellectual life 20th century.

Performers: Narrator: Juliet Stevenson; voices: Maureen Ali, Gillian Hanna, Margaret Robertson.

Notes: In English and French with English subtitles.
Originally produced as motion picture in 1995.

Summary: Through a combination of still photos, archival film footage, and interview commentary, documents the creative community of French, English and American women, many of whom were lesbians, who gravitated to the Left Bank in Paris during the early part of the 20th century.