Overview
- Interrogates the myriad of ways women are underrepresented in the film industry and denied the power to speak through the medium of film
- Explores the absence of women from key creative roles and the implications this holds for the kinds of stories being told; for the employment and creative opportunities available to women and for innovation in the audio-visual industries
- evaluates film industries in seventeen countries and regions to establish the extent and scale of the gender inequality problem in a broad range of locations
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Europe
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Front Matter
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Australia and New Zealand
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Susan Liddy lectures in the Department of Media and Communication Studies, MIC, Limerick, Ireland. Her research interests relate primarily to gender issues in the film industry and the representation of older women on screen and behind the camera. She is chair of Women in Film and Television Ireland and chair of the Equality Action Committee (EAC) of the Writers Guild and Screen Directors Guild of Ireland. She is editor of Women in Irish Film: Stories and Storytellers (2020).
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women in the International Film Industry
Book Subtitle: Policy, Practice and Power
Editors: Susan Liddy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39070-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39069-3Published: 09 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39072-3Published: 10 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39070-9Published: 08 August 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 340
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Film/TV Industry, Culture and Gender, Cultural Policy and Politics