Celluloid Ceiling: Women Film Directors Breaking Through - Couverture souple

Ellerson, Beti; Williams-Hawkins, Maria; Oughton, Karen; Bahiana, Ana Maria; Miller, Jacqui; Kelly, Gabrielle; Shaw, Nathan; Di Risio, Patricia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0956632904 ISBN 13 : 9780956632906

Editeur : Aurora Metro Books, 2014

Synopsis

Now Kathryn Bigelow has made history as the first woman to win an Oscar for directing, is this a new era for women filmmakers? The figures suggest otherwise. Seeking to redress the imbalance between male and female film directors, Celluloid Ceiling explores inspiring new work appearing in the USA, the UK and globally. Highlighting emerging women directors alongside ground-breaking pioneers, this is a one-stop guide to the leading women film directors in the 21st century and those who inspired them.

From Oscar-winning action director Kathryn Bigelow to emerging strong voices from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Laos, particular attention is paid to women making films in traditionally male-dominated areas such as action, sci-fi and fantasy and to works with a new take on the violence and pornography of the horror genre. This book shows that the changes overturning current business and artistic processes are opening up new opportunities for women film directors who are determined make the most of these.

The contributors represent women making film in Africa, Latin America, Europe, USA, Asia and India, with new voices in Japanese and Middle Eastern cinema, the women directors working in TV, as well as the first woman director Alice Guy Blache, the rise of the independent and the horror aficionados the Soska Sisters, Celluloid Ceiling includes numerous interviews and b&w photographs.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Beti Ellerson is founder and director of the Centre for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema, which features the African Women in Cinema Blog. She was the executive producer and host of Reels of Colour, and director of Sisters of the Screen: African Women in the Cinema (2002). Her publications include the book, Sisters of the Screen: Women of Africa on Film, Video and Television (Africa World Press, 2000) and articles in Journal of African Cinemas and Feminist Africa, among others. In addition to serving as president of the Diaspora Jury at the 2013 FESPACO, she was keynote speaker at the 2012 Paris Symposium on forty years of African women francophone filmmakers. Dr Ellerson teaches courses in visual culture, African cinema, women's studies and Africana studies, most recently at Denison University (USA) for the 2013-14 academic year. Contact: africanwomenincinema@africanwomenincinema.org

Dr Karen Oughton lectures in Media Communications at Regent's University London. Specialising in film studies, Oughton has contributed to Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media and has presented papers at conferences including Cine-Excess and for IAFOR. She is currently preparing research on the depiction of gender in the characters of Robert Downey Jr. and on representations of serial killers in film. Oughton is also a broadcaster and film journalist and has contributed commentary packages to home distributors including Lionsgate and articles to publications including Sight & Sound, Little White Lies and Ain't It Cool News. She has also served on England's judging panel for the Melies D'Argent award amongst other film industry duties.

Gabrielle Kelly, screenwriter and producer, is also a media educator and story expert. She has worked in Hollywood on both studio and indie films and on productions from Russia, Brazil, China and Europe. Her films include: All the Queen's Men, Stag, D.A.R.Y.L. for Paramount/Columbia, and her script of indie feature All Ages Night is set in the music scene of LA. She developed and edited the industry bible, The Movie Business; a Legal Guide with entertainment lawyer Kelly Crabb and was given the Female Maverick Tribute by Female Eye Film Festival in 2014. www.gabriellekelly.com

Cheryl Robson is an award-winning filmmaker. Her documentary Rock n Roll Island aired on BBC4 and won several awards at film festivals including a Gold remi. She worked at the BBC for several years and then taught filmmaking at the University of Westminster, before setting up a theatre company. She also created a publishing company which has published over 200 writers andwas shortlisted for the ipg Diversity award in 2019. As a writer, she has won the Croydon Warehouse International Playwriting Competition and as an editor, received a Special Jury Prize for Peace with author Robin Soans, for The Arab-Israeli Cookbook. Cheryl was shortlisted for the itv National Diversity awards 2019 for Lifetime Achievement. www.cherylrobson.net

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Aurora Metro Books
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0956632904
• ISBN 13: 9780956632906
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Éditeur: Kelly Gabrielle, Robson Cheryl
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible