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• Title:Women vs Hollywood : the fall and rise of women in film / Helen O'Hara.
  
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• Variant Title:Women versus Hollywood
  
• Author/Creator:O'Hara, Helen, author.
  
• Published/Created:London : Robinson, 2022
  ©2021
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PN1995.9.W6 O36 2022
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Women in the motion picture industry--United States--History.
  Women in motion pictures.
  Motion pictures and women--United States--History.
  
• Edition:Paperback edition
  
• Description:xiii, 354 pages ; 20 cm
  
• Summary:Hollywood was born just over a century ago, at a time of huge forward motion for women's rights. With no rules in place to stop them, there were women who forged ahead in many areas of filmmaking. Yet, despite the work of early pioneers like Dorothy Arzner, Mabel Normand, Mary Pickford and Alice Guy-Blaché, it soon came to embody the same old sexist standards. Women found themselves fighting a system that fed on their talent, creativity and beauty but refused to pay them the same respect as their male contemporaries - until now . . . The tide has finally begun to turn. A new generation of women, both in front of and behind the camera, are making waves in the industry and are now shaping some of the biggest films to hit our screens. In Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film, film critic Helen O'Hara takes a closer look at the pioneering and talented women of Hollywood and their work in film since Hollywood began. And in understanding how women were largely written out of Hollywood's own origin story, and how the films we watch are put together, we can finally see how to put an end to a picture that is so deeply unequal - and discover a multitude of stories out there just waiting to be told.
  
• Notes:"First published in Great Britain in 2021 by Robinson. This paperback edition published in 2022 by Robinson"--Title page verso.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:1472144449 ( paperback)
  9781472144447 (paperback)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Wild West
  When film could be female
  From Pioneers to Pariahs
  How women fell silent before sound
  Factory
  Putting the industry in film industry
  Underdogs
  How marginalised women fought the odds
  Censorship
  Or, a great way to screw everyone over
  Directors Behaving Badly
  How the auteur theory twisted film
  Revolution
  Movie brats and the male gaze
  Boring Legacy
  Or, how franchises took over Tinseltown
  Auteur Gap
  Where are all the female directors?
  #MeToo
  Making Hollywood safe for everyone
  Pay It Isn't So
  How to end the pay gap
  Gatekeeping
  Or, who critiques the critics?
  Who's the Boss?
  How we can change the picture.