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Lady Director - Adventures in Hollywood, Television and Beyond (Paperback)
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Lady Director - Adventures in Hollywood, Television and Beyond (Paperback)
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An intimate account of a seminal filmmaker's development-as a
creator and as a woman-both in art and in life. "Joyce Chopra, what
a gift of an extraordinary filmmaker you are, and one of our great
pioneers who forged a very difficult path. And for female
filmmakers everywhere, we are so blessed to have you as a
storyteller to forge the way to make it easier for others."-Laura
Dern, actor Hailed by the New Yorker as "a crucial forebear of
generations," award-winning director Joyce Chopra came of age in
the 1950s, prior to the dawn of feminism, and long before the
#MeToo movement. As a young woman, it seemed impossible that she
might one day realize her dream of becoming a film director-she
couldn't name a single woman in that role. But with her desire
fueled by a stay in Paris during the heady beginnings of the French
New Wave, she was determined to find a way. Chopra got her start
making documentary films with the legendary D.A. Pennebaker. From
her ground-breaking autobiographical short, Joyce at 34 (which was
acquired for NY MoMA'S permanent collection), to her rousingly
successful first feature, Smooth Talk (winner of the Best Director
and Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 1985), to a series of
increasingly cruel moves by Hollywood producers unwilling to accept
a woman in the director's role, Chopra's career trajectory was
never easy or straightforward. In this engaging, candid memoir,
Chopra describes how she learned to navigate the deeply embedded
sexism of the film industry, helping to pave the way for a
generation of women filmmakers who would come after her. She shares
stories of her bruising encounters with Harvey Weinstein and Sydney
Pollack, her experience directing Diane Keaton, Treat Williams, and
a host of other actors, as well as her deep friendships with Gene
Wilder, Arthur Miller, and Laura Dern. Along with the successes and
failures of her career, she provides an intimate view of a woman's
struggle to balance the responsibilities and rewards of motherhood
and marriage with a steadfast commitment to personal creative
achievement. During a career spanning six decades, Joyce Chopra has
worked through monumental shifts in her craft and in the culture at
large, and the span of her life story offers a view into the
implacable momentum of the push for all womens' liberation. "Joyce
Chopra has written a devastatingly frank, candid, and unsparing
memoir of her life as a film director-a 'woman director' in a field
notoriously dominated by men. The reader is astonished on her
behalf, at times infuriated, moved to laughter, and then to tears.
Lady Director: Adventures in Hollywood, Television, and Beyond is
one of its kind-highly recommended." -Joyce Carol Oates, author of
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
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