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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.
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 ]
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 ...
Although all-women jazz bands and family-based jazz groups were popular during World War II, many male jazz musicians were drafted to fight in the war. All-women bands had the opportunity to gain popularity and build their platform because of this. Some of these bands included Darlings of Rhythm and the International Sweethearts of Rhythm. [7]
She further expands on the stigmatized hyper-sexuality of the Black female and the effects it has on Black women, by showing cases of young Black women being sexually harassed or violated and then blamed for the acts committed against them.< [31] Claiming that even many Black women and men blame the victim for perpetuating stereotypes of ...
Rotten Tomatoes Movieclips (formerly Movieclips and later Fandango Movieclips) is a company located in Venice, Los Angeles that offers streaming video of movie clips and trailers from such Hollywood film companies as Universal Pictures, Amazon MGM Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. (including content from subsidiaries New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertainment), Disney, Sony Pictures ...
Women in six U.S. states are now effectively allowed to be topless in public, according to a new ruling by the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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.