"First published in Great Britain in 2021 by Robinson. This paperback edition published in 2022 by Robinson"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Who's the Boss? : How we can change the picture. From Pioneers to Pariahs : How women fell silent before sound -- Factory : Putting the industry in film industry -- Underdogs : How marginalised women fought the odds -- Censorship : Or, a great way to screw everyone over -- Directors Behaving Badly : How the auteur theory twisted film -- Revolution: Movie brats and the male gaze -- Boring Legacy: Or, how franchises took over Tinseltown -- Auteur Gap : Where are all the female directors? -- #MeToo : Making Hollywood safe for everyone -- Pay It Isn't So : How to end the pay gap -- Gatekeeping : Or, who critiques the critics? -- Who's the Boss? : How we can change the picture.
Summary:
Hollywood was born just over a century ago, at a time of huge forward motion for women's rights. With no rules in place to stop them, there were women who forged ahead in many areas of filmmaking. Yet, despite the work of early pioneers like Dorothy Arzner, Mabel Normand, Mary Pickford and Alice Guy-BlacheĢ, it soon came to embody the same old sexist standards. Women found themselves fighting a system that fed on their talent, creativity and beauty but refused to pay them the same respect as their male contemporaries - until now . . . The tide has finally begun to turn. A new generation of women, both in front of and behind the camera, are making waves in the industry and are now shaping some of the biggest films to hit our screens. In Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film, film critic Helen O'Hara takes a closer look at the pioneering and talented women of Hollywood and their work in film since Hollywood began. And in understanding how women were largely written out of Hollywood's own origin story, and how the films we watch are put together, we can finally see how to put an end to a picture that is so deeply unequal - and discover a multitude of stories out there just waiting to be told.
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