Nancy Meyers

Deborah Jermyn (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2017
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-62892-174-8 (ISBN)

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Nancy Meyers is acknowledged as the most commercially successful woman filmmaker of all time, described by Daphne Merkin in The New York Times on the release of It’s Complicated as "a singular figure in Hollywood – [she] may, in fact, be the most powerful female writer-director-producer currently working". Yet Meyers remains a director who, alongside being widely dismissed by critics, has been largely absent in scholarly accounts both of contemporary Hollywood cinema, and of feminism and film. Despite Meyers’ impressive track record for turning a profit (including the biggest box-office return ever achieved by a woman filmmaker at that timefor What Women Want in 2000), and a multifaceted career as a writer/producer/director dating back to her co-writing Private Benjamin in 1980, Meyers has been oddly neglected by Film Studies to date.

Including Nancy Meyers in the Bloomsbury Companions to Contemporary Filmmakers rectifies this omission, giving her the kind of detailed consideration and recognition she warrants and exploring how, notwithstanding the challenges authorship holds for feminist film studies, Meyers can be situated as a skilled ‘auteur’. This book proposes that Meyers’ box-office success, the consistency of style and theme across her films, and the breadth of her body of work as a writer/producer/director across more than three decades at the forefront of Hollywood, (thus importantly bridging the second/third waves of feminism) make her a key contemporary US filmmaker. Structured to meet the needs of both the student and scholar, Jermyn's volume situates Meyers within this historical and critical context, exploring the distinctive qualities of her body of work, the reasons behind the pervasive resistance to it and new ways of understanding her films.

Deborah Jermyn is a Reader in Film and Television at Roehampton University, UK. She is the author and editor of numerous books exploring women, feminism and popular culture including Female Celebrity and Ageing: Back in the Spotlight (2013), Sex and the City (2009) and Hollywood Transgressor: The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow (2003).

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Women, Hollywood and the Politics of the Popular
1. KEY COLLABORATIVE RELATIONSHIPS
Meet The Shmeyers: Meyers as writer-producer and the ‘writing couple’ leitmotif
2. WAYS OF WATCHING
The Romcom Queen: Gender, genre and cultural value
3. RETHINKING AUTHORSHIP
The wrong kind of woman filmmaker?: Meyers, feminism, and the quandaries of the female auteur
4. KEY CONCEPTS
‘Your age is my favourite thing about you’: Meyers’ older women and the gendered experience of ageing
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.08.2017
Reihe/Serie	The Bloomsbury Companions to Contemporary Filmmakers
Zusatzinfo	16 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
ISBN-10	1-62892-174-9 / 1628921749
ISBN-13	978-1-62892-174-8 / 9781628921748
Zustand	Neuware