You can’t be what you can’t see. This is the tagline for Miss Representation, a documentary that connects women in the media with women in leadership. At the 2011 AAUW National Convention, women leaders from every state gathered in Washington, D.C., and nodded their heads in agreement while watching the film. Our country is far [...]
Posts Tagged ‘movies’
Now in Theaters: Your Mom
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged Mom's Rising, Mother's Day, movies, trailer on May 4, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Celebrate this Mother’s Day by sending your favorite mom (or moms) a video that’s all about her. Customize a faux movie trailer that tells The Amazing Story of [Your Mom] and how she does it all (she even finds time to fight for fair pay!). Rated I for inspiring, this is one movie trailer you [...]
Creating Their Own Vampire-Free Destiny
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged gender stereotyping, movies, New Moon, Student Advisory Council, Twilight on November 30, 2009, | 2 Comments »
It’s vampire romance time. Unlike the Harry Potter book and film series, which have audiences of all ages and genders, the Twilight books and movies have a much narrower target: teenage girls and women. On November 20, 2009, New Moon, the sequel to the first film, Twilight, was finally released. My 14-year-old cousin bought the [...]
Time to Draw the Line on Tucker Max
Posted in Sexism, Sexual Harassment, tagged Misogyny, movies, rape, Sexual Harassment, sexual violence, sexualization of girls, Tucker Max on September 28, 2009, | 14 Comments »
With his movie premiere over the weekend, it’s been difficult to escape hearing or reading about Tucker Max, the blogger and author turned movie creator, who has generated a storm of controversy for his jokes about sexual violence. According to news reports, Women and Allies Rising in Resistance said that his writing promoted a culture [...]
(Wo)man vs. Beast
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged movies, women filmmakers on August 28, 2009, | 20 Comments »
This week I’ve been thinking about women bullfighters, thanks to a new release from Women Make Movies (WMM), which was established in 1972 with the specific mission of training women to become film and video makers. The film, titled Ella es la matadora, will be nationally broadcast on PBS’s POV series on September 1. Putting [...]
Casting Call: FEMALE Lead for a Hollywood Summer Blockbuster Hit
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Women and Work, tagged blockbusters, Bruno, Funny People, G.I. JOe, Harry Potter, Hawthrone, Hollywood, In Plain Sight, movies, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, My Boys, My Life in Ruins, Nurse Jackie, Saving Grace, Star Trek, The Closer, Transformers, True Blood, Weeds, women leads, Year One on June 25, 2009, | 1 Comment »
After reading a recent post on the Women in Media & News blog by guest blogger Nia Vardalos on how studio executives do not consider female leads to be profitable characters, I couldn’t help ask whether this is only the case for summer movies or for movies in general. You may remember Nia from an [...]
Angela Bassett, an Artist Breaking through Barriers
Posted in Women's History Month, tagged Actress, Angela Bassett, Courtney B. Vance, Dr. Betty Shabazz, Dr. Cate Banfield, ER, Golden Globes, movies, Royal Theater Boys & Girls Club, Ruby’s Bucket of Blood, television, UNICEF, What’s Love Got to Do With It, Yale on March 11, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
When I volunteered to write about artists for women’s history month, I thought it would be easy. It turned out to be a huge learning experience, and it was harder than I thought. My artist who breaks through barriers is actor and producer, Angela Bassett. Bassett grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida, raised with her [...]
Meet Rashi Bahri: Talk Show Host, Screenplay Writer, Producer, Director
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged Fellowships, film, Following the Fellows, Grants & Awards, international fellowships, movies on October 10, 2008, | 6 Comments »
I remember once, after a knock-down, drag-out battle about whether or not I should take a year off of college to travel the west coast — my corner said yes and my parents’ corner said no way — my dad stayed up all night and wrote a small-novel length e-mail explaining his position and concluding [...]
It’s Just a Movie
Posted in Sex Discrimination, tagged culture, disney, entertainment, horton hears a who, media, movies, NPR, ratatouille on April 22, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
Peter Sagal has a point. It’s certainly curious to anyone who cares about girls that the writers behind Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who decided to write in 96 girl characters just so their father could ignore them. In the scene introducing him, the Mayor sits at the breakfast table as his children revolve around [...]
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