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The Value Gap
How female directors, producers, and writers navigate
the challenges and barriers facing female-driven projects at each
stage of filmmaking in contemporary Hollywood.
Conversations about gender equity in the workplace accelerated in
the 2010s, with debates inside Hollywood specifically pointing to
broader systemic problems of employment disparities and
exploitative labor practices. Compounded by the devastating #MeToo
revelations, these problems led to a wide-scale call for change.
The Value Gap traces female-driven filmmaking across
development, financing, production, film festivals, marketing, and
distribution, examining the realities facing women working in the
industry during this transformative moment. Drawing from five years
of extensive interviews with female producers, writers, and
directors at different stages of their careers, Courtney Brannon
Donoghue examines how Hollywood business cultures \"value\"
female-driven projects as risky or not bankable. Industry claims
that \"movies targeting female audiences don't make money\" or \"women
can't direct big-budget blockbusters\" have long circulated to
rationalize systemic gender inequities and have served to normalize
studios prioritizing the white male-driven status quo. Through a
critical media industry studies lens, The Value Gap
challenges this pervasive logic with firsthand accounts of women
actively navigating the male-dominated and conglomerate-owned
industrial landscape.
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Negotiating Dissidence
Negotiating Dissidence traces the very beginnings of Arab women making documentaries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), from the 1970s and 1980s in Egypt and Lebanon, to the 1990s and 2000s in Morocco and Syria. Supporting a historical overview of the documentary form in the Arab world with a series of in-depth case studies, Stefanie Van de Peer looks at the work of pioneering figures like Ateyyat El Abnoudy, the 'mother of Egyptian documentary', Tunisia's Selma Baccar and the Palestinian filmmaker Mai Masri.
Case studies include:
Egypt's Ateyyat El AbnoudyLebanon's Jocelyne SaabAlgeria's Assia DjebarTunisia's Selma BaccarPalestine's Mai MasriMorocco's Izza GéniniSyria's Halla Al Abdallah
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