Liberating Hollywood : women directors and the feminist reform of 1970s American cinema / Maya Montañez Smukler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smukler, Maya Montanez, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women motion picture producers and directors--United States.

Women motion picture producers and directors.

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

Women in the motion picture industry.

Feminist films--United States--History and criticism.

Feminist films.

Feminism and motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 351 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-346) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

0-8135-8750-6

OCLC:

1125112363