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38% of films employed 0 or 1 woman in the roles considered, 23% employed 2 women, 28% employed 3 to 5 women, and 10% employed 6 to 9 women. A New York Times article stated that only 15% of the top films in 2013 had women for a lead acting role. [ 7 ]
Miss Representation is a 2011 American documentary film written, directed, and produced by Jennifer Siebel Newsom. [1] [2] The film explores how mainstream media contributes to the under-representation of women in influential positions by circulating limited and often disparaging portrayals of women.
Chick Flicks: Contemporary Women at the Movies. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-96255-1. Greven, David (2011). Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema: The Woman's Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-23-011251-3. Haskell, Molly (1987). From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in ...
The Circle has made annual awards, the Women Film Critics Circle Awards, since 2004. The categories are as follows (2019): Best Movie About Women; Best Movie By A Woman; Best Woman Storytelling [a storytelling award] Best Actress; Best Actor; Best Foreign Film By or About Women; Best Documentary By or About Women; Best Equality of the Sexes ...
Makers: Women Who Make America is a 2013 documentary film about the struggle for women's equality in the United States during the last five decades of the 20th century. The film was narrated by Meryl Streep and distributed by the Public Broadcasting Service as a three-part, three-hour television documentary in February 2013.
This underrepresentation makes our political participation even more imperative. To that end, HuffPost Women has partnered with Rock The Vote, and more than 50 other women's media brands for a cross-brand effort to encourage and help women across the country to register to vote. Because, quite simply, #OurVoteCounts.
But some American movie makers, especially women, were publicly in favor of suffrage. Mary Pickford was photographed reading a British "Votes for Women" publication. Women like Lois Weber and Bess Meredyth who worked at Universal Pictures and lived in Universal City, California , the studio's unincorporated community, ran for public office on a ...
Women Make Film is a documentary film by the British-Irish filmmaker and film critic Mark Cousins. The film premiered on 1 September 2018 at the Venice Film Festival , and was released on the BFI Player in May 2020.