Celluloid Ceiling

Tearing Down the Celluloid Ceiling

K. Sujata | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Glass Ceiling, Bridesmaids Movie, Celluloid Ceiling, Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, America Ferrera, Women Directors, Hollywood, Women Leaders, Women Producers, Women in Film, Chicago News
K. Sujata

What Hollywood and Chicago have in common: when women are leaders, great things happen -- but women don't get to lead nearly often enough.

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Misrepresented

Ilene H. Lang | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gender Equality, Stereotypes, Rachel Maddow, Condoleezza Rice, Sex, Katie Couric, Jane Fonda, Miss Representation, Role Models, Celluloid Ceiling, Media, Gender Equity, Gender, Media News
Ilene H. Lang

Miss Representation, which premiered on Saturday in New York City, explores how one-dimensional, hypersexualized images of women in mainstream media reinforce negative gender stereotypes.

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Female Directors, Writers, and Producers in Film Matter

Stacy Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Female Directors, Kathryn Bigelow, Annenberg School, Women's Representation in the Media, Celluloid Ceiling, Usc, Women in Hollywood, The Oscars, Los Angeles News
Stacy Smith

Last week, my research team and I released a study on gender in 100 top-grossing films in 2007. Females do not represent "half the cinematic sky." The findings make this point crystal clear.

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Women in Hollywood: The Critics, the Directors, the Actresses, the Oscars and Where are the Female D.P.s?

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Holywood Execs, Actresses, Feminist, Silver Screen, Womne, Sheery Lansing, Anne Hathaway, Studios, Sophie's Choice, Female Directors, Meryl Streep, Celluloid Ceiling, Directors of Photogrpahy, Motion Picture Association of America, Ocars, Academy, Entertainment News
Vivian Norris

It's Hollywood's loss. To keep women out of the nominations and awards for the Oscars. To ignore female film critics. To pretend women directors of photography do not exist.

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