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"Maya Angelou and Jean Seberg were just some of the women who faced everything
from racism and sexism to transphobia, yet produced some of cinema’s most
defining pictures
Everything we’re told about cinema is that it’s shaped by men. If women feature
at all in many Hollywood histories, it’s to look gorgeous on screen and lead
interesting personal lives off it.
But this narrative has been warped, consciously and not, by the men who have
dominated film-making for almost a century, ignoring the women who made films,
challenged the studio system – and helped bring it down.
The battle for equality on the screen is still being fought. Things are slowly
changing for the better – witness Chloé Zhao’s victory at Sunday’s Golden
Globes – but it comes too late for generations who have been locked out of
Hollywood’s corridors of power. Their stories are still too-little discussed.
Here are 11 women whose ill-treatment illustrates Hollywood’s alternative
history"
Via Esther Schindler.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
