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A career woman is a term which describes a woman whose main goal in life is to create a career for herself. [1] At the time that the term was first used in the 1930s American context, it was specifically used to differentiate between women who either worked in the home or worked outside the home in a low-level job as a economic necessity versus women who wanted to and were able to seek out ...
This is a list of film directorial debuts in chronological order. The films and dates referred to are a director's first commercial cinematic release.Many filmmakers have directed works which were not commercially released, for example early works by Orson Welles such as his filming of his stage production of Twelfth Night in 1933 or his experimental short film The Hearts of Age in 1934.
I Was an American Spy: Claire Phillips: Ann Dvorak: I'll See You in My Dreams: Gus Kahn: Danny Thomas: Jim Thorpe – All-American: Jim Thorpe: Burt Lancaster: The Lady and the Bandit: Dick Turpin: Louis Hayward: The Lady with the Lamp: Florence Nightingale: Anna Neagle: The Magic Box: William Friese-Greene: Robert Donat: The Man with a Cloak ...
This is a list of films and miniseries that are based on actual events. All films on this list are from American production unless indicated otherwise.. True story films [1] gained popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with the production of films based on actual events that first aired on CBS, ABC, and NBC.
To date, Nnegest Likké is the first African American woman to write, direct and act in a full-length movie released by a major studio, Phat Girlz (2006) starring Jimmy Jean-Louis and Mo'Nique. For a much fuller accounting of the larger history of black women filmmakers, see Yvonne Welbon's 62-minute documentary Sisters in Cinema (2003). [52]
Throughout her acting career, Cher has mainly starred in comedy, drama, and romance films. She has appeared in twenty films, including two as a cameo. She has also appeared in one starring theater role, one video game role, numerous television commercials and directed a piece of the motion picture If These Walls Could Talk in 1996 and some of her music videos of the Geffen-era in late 1980s ...
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 ...
In the 1990s, black filmmakers started to break through into all-white Hollywood. In the 1990s, black film creators started showing representation in front and behind the camera. In 1991, Julie Dash became the first African-American female filmmaker to have a full-length general theatrical release in the US for her film Daughters of the Dust.