Women and new Hollywood : gender, creative labor, and 1970s American cinema / edited by Aaron Hunter, Martha Shearer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hunter, Aaron, editor.

Shearer, Martha, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in the motion picture industry--United States--History--20th century.

Women in the motion picture industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2023]

Summary:

The 1970s has often been hailed as a great moment for American film, as a generation of “New Hollywood” directors like Scorsese, Coppola, and Altman offered idiosyncratic visions of what movies could be. Yet the auteurist discourse hailing these directors as the sole authors of their films has obscured the important creative roles women played in the 1970s American film industry. Women and New Hollywood revises our understanding of this important era in American film by examining the contributions that women made not only as directors, but also as screenwriters, editors, actors, producers, and critics. Including essays on film history, film texts, and the decade’s film theory and criticism, this collection showcases the rich and varied cinematic products of women’s creative labor, as well as the considerable barriers they faced. It considers both women working within and beyond the Hollywood film industry, reconceptualizing New Hollywood by bringing it into dialogue with other American cinemas of the 1970s. By valuing the many forms of creative labor involved in film production, this collection offers exciting alternatives to the auteurist model and new ways of appreciating the themes and aesthetics of 1970s American film.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Part I History

1 The Rothman Renaissance, or the Politics of Archival (Re)Discovery

2 Watering the Grapevine: Jessie Maple, Self-Narration, and the Trajectory of a Career in Community

3 “It Was a Little Late in the Day for All That Prissy Business”: The New Hollywood Career of Jay Presson Allen

4 “We Knew and She Knew That She Was Barbra”: Streisand in the 1970s

5 I Know Why: Maya Angelou and the Promise of 1970s Hollywood

Part II Text

6 Women Editors in New Hollywood: Cutting Down on the Raging Bullshit

7 Elaine May’s Awkward Age

8 “She’s a Professional, Now”: Girlfriends, Creative Labor, and the Challenge of Feminist Professionalization

9 A Different Image: Studies in Contrasts by Women Filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion

10 Barbara Loden’s Wanda (1970): A Radically Negative Feminist Aesthetic

Part III Theory and Criticism

11 Genealogies of a Decade: Classifying and Historicizing Women of the New Hollywood

12 “Women’s- Movement Anger”: Pauline Kael and New Hollywood

13 Feminism, Auteurism, and the 1970s, in Theory

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-9788-2181-6

1-9788-2183-2

OCLC:

1376196023