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Alicia Malone's Take on Influential Women in Film!"Once again
Alicia Malone champions women filmmakers, opening the floodgates to
a great new wave of female voices and creative vision." Maria
Giese, filmmaker and activist #1 Bestseller in Movies & Video
Guides & Reviews With the success of the Wonder Woman movies
and the results following the outcry of the #MeToo movement, now is
the time to highlight the female influences in film history
previously left unheard! The voices of powerful women in old
Hollywood-told. You may have heard the term "male gaze," coined in
the 1970s, about how art and entertainment have been influenced by
the male's perspective. What about the opposite? Women have been
making movies since the very beginning of cinema. In The Female
Gaze, Alicia Malone explores the ideas, thoughts, and views we
learn from women from behind the scenes. What does the world look
like through the "female gaze"? Learn about women who changed the
world. Discover brilliantly talented and accomplished women
directors, both world renowned and obscure, who have shaped the
film industry in ways rarely fully acknowledged. Find mini-essays
written by women like Alicia Malone and other diverse female film
critics. Featuring past and present films, this behind the scenes
guidebook is perfect for the Hollywood history fan in your life.
Inside, observe: How female directors' voices shaped films and the
film industry The advancements and accomplishments of influential
women in history and film The lives of these women and the
struggles they faced throughout Hollywood history If you liked
Women in Art or Camera Man, you'll adore the powerful women in
history found in Alicia Malone's The Female Gaze.
Girls on Film: Witty Life Lessons from Alicia Malone#1 Best Seller
in Photography Criticism & Essays, Movie Guides & Reviews,
Movie Reference With humor and honesty, Girls on Film looks at the
good, the bad, and the unfairly written women in film. This
collection celebrates the power of cinema, media, culture and the
faces of girls on film. Insiders from a Nerdy Film Lover. Weaving
together life lessons with movie history, film reporter Alicia
Malone celebrates the power of cinema and the women who shone
brightly on the big screen, while also critiquing hidden messages
in films. Alicia connects film analysis with her own journey of
self-discovery-from growing up as a nerdy film lover in Australia
to finding her voice as a woman on television. Each Movie has a
Hidden Message. What messages and life lessons have been taken from
these movies of the past-positive, negative or sometimes, both?
Alicia Malone highlights many films, some with life changing
moments and others with a tribute to feminist authors and messages.
In this modern approach to film reviews and women, you'll find
essays on: Hidden messaging and life lessons in films The journey
of women's history in film Breakdowns on movie stereotypes like the
the femme fatale Women nonfiction lovers who enjoyed Where the
Girls Are, or feminism books like Extraordinary Women In History,
When Women Invented Television, or Renegade Women in Film and TV,
will love Girls on Film.
Women in Filmmaking and Their Struggle Against Bias"After all,
Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it
backwards and in high heels" -Ann Richards #1 Bestseller in Acting
& Auditioning, Performing Arts, and Guides & Reviews Women
in filmmaking since the beginning. Women have been instrumental in
the success of American cinema since its very beginning. One of the
first people to ever pick up a motion picture camera was a woman;
as was the first screenwriter to win two Academy Awards, the
inventor of the boom microphone, and the first person to be
credited with the title Film Editor. Throughout the history of
Hollywood, women have been revolutionizing, innovating, and shaping
filmmaking. Yet their stories are rarely shared. This is what film
reporter Alicia Malone wants to change. The first female directors.
Backwards & In Heels tells the history of women in film in a
different way, with stories about incredible women who made their
mark in each Hollywood era. Every story is inspiring, detailing the
accomplishments of extraordinary women and the obstacles they
faced. Backwards & In Heels combines research and exclusive
interviews with influential women and men working in Hollywood
today, including Geena Davis, J.J. Abrams, Ava DuVernay, Octavia
Spencer, America Ferrera, Paul Feig, and many more; as well as film
professors, historians and experts. Time to level the playing
field. Think of Backwards & In Heels as a guidebook, your entry
into the complex world of women in film. Join Alicia Malone as she
champions Hollywood women of the past and present and looks to the
future. Learn little known facts about: The first females in film
direction Iconic movie stars Present day activists If you enjoyed
books such as Renegade Women in Film and TV or The Purple Diaries,
you'll love Alicia Malone's Backwards & In Heels. Also, don't
miss Alicia's #1 Bestseller in Movies & Video Guides &
Reviews, The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women.
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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