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Women vs Hollywood - The Fall and Rise of Women in Film (Hardcover)
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Women vs Hollywood - The Fall and Rise of Women in Film (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R523
Discovery Miles 5 230
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'A fascinating polemic' Sunday Times 'A powerful, sobering and
vital work' The Mail on Sunday 'A page-turning read, peppered with
humour' Sight & Sound 'A must read' Edgar Wright A call to arms
from Empire magazine's 'geek queen', Helen O'Hara, that explores
women's roles - both in front of and behind the camera - since the
birth of Hollywood, how those roles are reflected within wider
society and what we can do to level the playing field. 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-Blache, 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.
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