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The Value Gap
2023
Overview
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.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Subject
ISBN
9781477327296, 1477327290, 1477327312, 9781477327319, 1477327304, 9781477327302
