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Liberating Hollywood : Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema / Maya Montañez Smukler.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (275 p.) : 22 b-w, 2 tablesContent type:
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  • 9780813587509
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.436522
LOC classification:
  • PN1995
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Prologue: Before There Was 1970s Hollywood, There Was New York City in the 1960s -- 1. Feminist Reform Comes to Hollywood: New Hollywood, Old Sexism -- 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 -- Epilogue: Desperately Seeking the Eighties -- Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Prologue: Before There Was 1970s Hollywood, There Was New York City in the 1960s -- 1. Feminist Reform Comes to Hollywood: New Hollywood, Old Sexism -- 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 -- Epilogue: Desperately Seeking the Eighties -- Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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