Helen O’Hara, film critic, editor-at-large for Empire magazine and co-host of the Empire film podcast, talks about her newest non-fiction, Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and RIse of Women in Film and host of its accompanying podcast, Women vs Hollywood With Helen O’Hara.
Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:
The Care Bears Movie (movie)
My Little Pony: The Movie (movie)
Black Panther (movie)
Captain Marvel (movie)
Terri White, former editor of Empire and author of Coming Undone: A Memoir
Twilight (movie)
Chris Hewitt, co-host of the Empire podcast
Notting Hill (movie)
Helen’s other books about movies: Best Movies of the 80s and The Superhero Movie Book
Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema by Maya Montañez Smukler, (Ph.D., Cinema & Media Studies, UCLA) heads the research and study center at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Shelley Stamp, film historian, professor at UCSC, and author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood and Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture After the Nickelodeon
Karen Ward Mahar, professor of history and the co-director of the American Studies Program at Siena College, and author of Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood
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The Golden Compass (movie)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (movie)
Reservoir Dogs (movie)
Home Alone (movie)
Ava DuVerney directed Selma, A Wrinkle in Time, and many more films
Squid Game (Netflix TV show)
Parasite (movie)
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Wonder Woman (2017 movie)
Jurassic World (movie)
Petit Maman (movie)
On the Basis of Sex (movie)
Shut Up and Sing (documentary)
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