Liberating Hollywood

Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema

Maya Montañez Smukler (Autor)

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364 Seiten

2018
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-8748-6 (ISBN)

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Winner of the 2018 Richard Wall Memorial Award from the Theater Library Association

Liberating Hollywood examines the professional experiences and creative output of women filmmakers during a unique moment in history when the social justice movements that defined the 1960s and 1970s challenged the enduring culture of sexism and racism in the U.S. film industry. Throughout the 1970s feminist reform efforts resulted in a noticeable rise in the number of women directors, yet at the same time the institutionalized sexism of Hollywood continued to create obstacles to closing the gender gap. Maya Montañez Smukler reveals that during this era there were an estimated sixteen women making independent and studio films: Penny Allen, Karen Arthur, Anne Bancroft, Joan Darling, Lee Grant, Barbara Loden, Elaine May, Barbara Peeters, Joan Rivers, Stephanie Rothman, Beverly Sebastian, Joan Micklin Silver, Joan Tewkesbury, Jane Wagner, Nancy Walker, and Claudia Weill. Drawing on interviews conducted by the author, Liberating Hollywood is the first study of women directors within the intersection of second wave feminism, civil rights legislation, and Hollywood to investigate the remarkable careers of these filmmakers during one of the most mythologized periods in American film history.

MAYA MONTAÑEZ. SMUKLER is head of the UCLA Film & Television Archive Research and Study Center. Her work appears in collections including: Women and New Hollywood: Gender, Creative Labor and 1970s American Cinema, ReFocus: The Films of Elaine May, ReFocus: The Films of Susan Seidelman, and Happily Ever After: Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Prologue

1 Feminist Reform Comes to Hollywood

2 1970s Cultures of Production: Studio, Art House, and Exploitation

3 New Women: Women Directors and the 1970s New Woman Film

4 Radicalizing the Directors Guild of America

5 Desperately Seeking the Eighties: 1970s Perseverance Turns to 1980s Progress

Appendix

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.11.2018
Zusatzinfo	22 b-w, 2 tables
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	626 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8135-8748-4 / 0813587484
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-8748-6 / 9780813587486
Zustand	Neuware