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Title

Celluloid ceiling : women film directors breaking through / editors, Gabrielle Kelly, Cheryl Robson.

Publication

Twickenham : Supernova Books, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Kelly, Gabrielle
• Robson, Cheryl

Description

383 pages; 20 cm

Summary

Now Kathryn Bigelow has made history as the first woman to win an Oscar for directing, is this a new era for women film-makers? The figures in the USA suggest otherwise. In this unique international overview, we discover why and how women film directors are breaking through internationally. Highlighting emerging women directors alongside ground-breaking pioneers, this is a one-stop guide to the leading women film directors of the twenty-first century ? and those who inspired them. From the blockbusters of the Hollywood studios to emerging voices from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Laos, we learn of women making films in traditionally male-dominated areas such as action, fantasy and horror. With wide-ranging contributions from countries with mature and nascent film industries, this volume demonstrates that economic and technological changes are creating new opportunities for women film directors everywhere.

Subject

• Women motion picture producers and directors
• Women motion picture producers and directors > Interviews
• Glass ceiling (Employment discrimination)

Genre/Form

Interviews

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

African women directors: edited version of a speech given at the colloquy 'Francophone African women filmmakers: 40 years of cinema, Paris (1972-2012)' / Beti Ellerson -- Speak up! Who's speaking?: African female filmmakers speak for themselves / Maria Williams-Hawkins -- The home, the body and otherness: Canadian representations of identity and feminism in Mary Harron's American Psycho, Sarah Polley's Away From Her and the Soska Sisters' American Mary / Karen Oughton -- Female filmmakers in Latin America / Ana Maria Bahiana -- USA: flouting the system: Lois Weber, Dorothy Arzner and Ida Lupino / Jacqui Miller -- From Hollywood to Indiewood to Chinawood: women film directors in the US / Gabrielle Kelly -- US: women film directors of the Indie world / Nathan Shaw -- Oscar-worthy women directors / Patricia Di Risio -- Interview with Kathryn Bigelow / Ana Maria Bahiana -- Moving up: women directors and South-east Asian cinema / Anchalee Chaiworaporn -- Films under an unknown woman: remediating the absence of gender politics in the films of women directors in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong / Pieter Aquilia -- Women filmmakers of South Korea / Anchalee Chaiworaporn -- 'Why are you making such a big deal just because I am a woman?' Women directors of popular Indian cinema / Coonoor Kripalani -- Cats and dogs and wild berries: new voices in Japanese cinema / Adam Bingham -- To direct patriarchy: women film directors in Pakistan / Iram Parveen Bilal -- Brillian careers: three waves of Australian, New Zealand and Indigenous women film directors / Pierter Aquilia -- Alice Guy-Blaché, true pioneer / Tania Field -- A century of Mädchen: femmes and frauen in facist, new wave, and contemporary European cinema / Heidi Honeycutt -- Hidden histories in film: female directors from South Eastern Europe / Dina Iordanova -- Iron and reel: Russian women directors through the Soviet era and beyond / Karlanna Lewis -- Where's Britannia / Melody Bridges -- Coming forth (day) by day: Arab female filmmakers making strides / Ronan Doyle -- In their own words: interviews with contemporary women directors from the Middle East / Elhum Shalerikar -- Voices of Israeli women filmmakers / Amy Kronish.

ISBN

• 9780956632906 (pbk.)
• 0956632904 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 870425356
• SCSB-10607694

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library