Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood write by Mary Harrod. This book was released on 2021-05-24. Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite the widely publicised prejudice faced by women in Hollywood, since around 1990 a significant minority of female directors have been making commercially and culturally impactful films there across the full range of genres. This book explores movies by filmmakers Amy Heckerling, Nora Ephron, Nancy Meyers, Catherine Hardwicke, Sofia Coppola, Kimberly Peirce, Kathryn Bigelow and Greta Gerwig, including many which are still critically neglected or derided, seeing them as offering a new understanding of genre filmmaking. That is, like many other contemporary films but in a striking proportion within the smaller set of mainstream movies by women, this body of work revels in a heightened genre status that allows its authors to simultaneously address ‘intellectual’ cinephilic pleasures and bodily-emotive ones. Arguing through close analysis that these films demonstrate the inseparability of such strategies of engagement in contemporary genre cinema, Heightened Genre reclaims women’s mainstream filmmaking for feminism through a recalibration of genre theory itself.
Women Do Genre in Film and Television
Women Do Genre in Film and Television - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women Do Genre in Film and Television write by Mary Harrod. This book was released on 2017-10-30. Women Do Genre in Film and Television available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of first Prize in the BAFTSS Best Edited Collection competition, this volume examines how different generations of women work within the genericity of audio-visual storytelling not necessarily to ‘undo’ or ‘subvert’ popular formats, but also to draw on their generative force. Recent examples of filmmakers and creative practitioners within and outside Hollywood as well as women working in non-directing authorial roles remind us that women are in various ways authoring commercially and culturally impactful texts across a range of genres. Put simply, this volume asks: what do women who are creatively engaged with audio-visual industries do with genre and what does genre do with them? The contributors to the collection respond to this question from diverse perspectives and with different answers, spanning issues of direction, screenwriting, performance and audience address/reception.
Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers
Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers write by Katarzyna Paszkiewicz. This book was released on 2018-06-06. Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examining the significance of women's work in popular film genres, this test sheds light on women's contribution to genre cinema through an exploration of filmmakers like Kathryn Bigelow, Diablo Cody, Sofia Coppola, and Kelly Reichard.
Spaces of Women's Cinema
Spaces of Women's Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spaces of Women's Cinema write by Sue Thornham. This book was released on 2019-03-21. Spaces of Women's Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sue Thornham explores issues of space, place, time and gender in feminist filmmaking through an examination of a wide range of films by contemporary women filmmakers, ranging from the avant-garde to mainstream Hollywood. Beginning from questions about space itself and the way it has been gendered, she asks how representation functions in relation to space and time, and how this, too, is gendered, before moving to an exploration of how such questions might be considered in relation to women's filmmaking. In sections dealing with spaces from wilderness to city, she analyses in detail how these issues have been dealt with by women filmmakers, addressing the work of filmmakers such as Jane Campion, Kathryn Bigelow, Julie Dash, Maggie Greenwald, Patricia Rozema and Carol Morley, and films including 'An Angel at My Table' (1990), 'Daughters of the Dust' (1991) 'The Ballad of Little Jo' (1993), 'Winter's Bone' (2010), 'Zero Dark Thirty' (2012) and 'The Falling' (2014).
Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood
Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood write by Karen Ward Mahar. This book was released on 2008-08-25. Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood explores when, how, and why women were accepted as filmmakers in the 1910s and why, by the 1920s, those opportunities had disappeared. In looking at the early film industry as an industry—a place of work—Mahar not only unravels the mystery of the disappearing female filmmaker but untangles the complicated relationship among gender, work culture, and business within modern industrial organizations. In the early 1910s, the film industry followed a theatrical model, fostering an egalitarian work culture in which everyone—male and female—helped behind the scenes in a variety of jobs. In this culture women thrived in powerful, creative roles, especially as writers, directors, and producers. By the end of that decade, however, mushrooming star salaries and skyrocketing movie budgets prompted the creation of the studio system. As the movie industry remade itself in the image of a modern American business, the masculinization of filmmaking took root. Mahar's study integrates feminist methodologies of examining the gendering of work with thorough historical scholarship of American industry and business culture. Tracing the transformation of the film industry into a legitimate "big business" of the 1920s, and explaining the fate of the female filmmaker during the silent era, Mahar demonstrates how industrial growth and change can unexpectedly open—and close—opportunities for women.
