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Shaping Global Cultures Through Screenwriting: Women Who Write Our Worlds

Rose Ferrell, Rosanne Welch (eds.)

Bristol: Intellect (2025), 658 pp.

"This volume, Shaping Global Cultures through Screenwriting: Women Who Write Our Worlds, tells stories of women who have worked with and within communities to bring the communities’ stories to life through screenwriting. In gathering these examples, we asked for stories that achieved some level ... of impact for the communities. Impact was considered across a number of indices. We wanted to show that attitudes have shifted, policies have been rewritten and the life experiences and ranges of possibility for some have changed for the better as a result of women’s work. We hope to show through our stories that film can change lives; that sharing stories matters; and that women are everywhere, using their skills in screen production for the good of many. In her excellent book, Women in the International Film Industry: Policy Practice and Power, Susan Liddy (2020) offers ‘a wide-ranging, critical assessment of practice, policy and progress’ to establish the range and scale of gender inequality that currently exists in the world of screen production. She quotes O’Neill and Domingo (2015) to point out that social, economic and political conditions vary, and ‘combine in different ways to enable or constrain women’s agency and leadership’ in screen production (Liddy 2020: 1). In contrast, our book approaches the same problem from the opposite perspective: we seek to correlate the ‘policy, practice and power’ (Liddy 2020) with the actual work of women screenwriters. Our aim is to point out what women screenwriters, creators and filmmakers are doing in disparate corners of the world, and how their effort is positively impacting communities, shaping culture and creating change. We argue that, despite the fact that women screenwriters are underrepresented in leadership roles in film industries worldwide, the impact of their films remains visible and palpable. We provide evidence that, as women step into the roles of screenwriter, filmmaker and collaborator, using known and emerging technologies, formats and genres under the broad scope of ‘screen production’, they raise the voices of other women and other communities. This volume shows the impact of women’s voices in creating real change for the communities whose stories are told through the topics and themes of these women’s screen works. Not least, this volume seeks to celebrate these women and their communities and bring awareness of that impact to broader communities worldwide." (Introduction, page 1) more

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The Celluloid Ceiling: A Gender-Based Analysis of the Israeli Film Industry

Lior Elefant, Etty Konor-Attias, Yael Hasson, Noga Dagan-Buzaglo

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); Adva Center (2021), 86 pp.

"This report examines the Israeli film industry from the perspective of gender. Over the past twenty years, there has been a growing involvement of women in the Israeli film industry. Since the establishment of Israel and up until the year 2000, women directed a mere 7% of screened Israeli narrative ... more

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FrauENTscheiderinnen bewegen die Welt

Weltzeit (Deutsche Welle), issue 1 (2021), 43 pp.

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Film ab! Kunst, Geschäft und Widerstand: Kino im globalen Süden

welt-sichten, issue 6 (2020), pp. 12-33

"Viele Filme aus Ländern in Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika befassen sich phantasievoll mit gesellschaftlichen Fragen. Unter welchen Bedingungen arbeiten Regisseurinnen in Algerien, Marokko und Tunesien? Warum sind afrikanische Religionen und Riten ein Thema im jungen nigerianischen Kino? Und wie g ... more

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Achieving Gender Equality and Promoting Diversity in the European Audiovisual Sector: Good Practice Handbook

Daphne Tepper

Association of Commercial Television in Europe (ACT); Association of European Radios (AER); European Broadcasting Union (EBU); European Audiovisual Production Association (CEPI); European Federation of Journalists (EFJ); International Federation of Actors (FIA); International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF); International Federation of Musicians (FIM); Entertainment & Arts (EURO-MEI) UNI Europa – Media (2020), 70 pp.

"The range of actions that social partners and audiovisual stakeholders can take to improve gender equality and diversity is broad. From ambitious strategies and plans to smaller-scale initiatives that have a direct impact on the organisation of work. The good practices presented in this report have ... more

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Contemporary Women Filmmakers in Myanmar: Reflections on a Visit in February 2019

Valentina Vitali

Bioscope, volume 11, issue 1 (2020), pp. 78-91

"Existing accounts of Myanmar’s film industry available to English speakers are more than twenty years out of date. Opening with a brief overview of cinema in Myanmar since 2000, this article is based on a recent visit to the Myanmar Motion Picture Development Department and the Yangon Film School ... more

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Negotiating Dissidence: The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary

Stefanie Van de Peer

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2018), vii, 238 pp.

"In spite of harsh censorship, conservative morals and a lack of investment, women documentarists in the Arab world have found ways to subtly negotiate dissidence in their films, something that is becoming more apparent since the ‘Arab Revolutions’. In this book, Stefanie Van de Peer traces the ... more

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Cultural Revolution in Iran: Contemporary Popular Culture in the Islamic Republic

Annabelle Sreberny, Massoumeh Torfeh (eds.)

London; New York: Tauris, new paperback ed. (2017), xiv, 287 pp.

"Despite the repressive power of the current regime the immense creativity of popular cultural practices, that negotiate and resist a repressive system, is a potent and dynamic force. This book draws on the expertise and experience of Iranian and international academics and activists to address dive ... more

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Latin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics

Deborah Martin, Deborah Shaw (eds.)

London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic (2017), xx, 268 pp.

"Latin American women filmmakers have achieved unprecedented international prominence in recent years. Notably political in their approach, figures such as Lucrecia Martel, Claudia Llosa and Bertha Navarro have created innovative and often challenging films, enjoying global acclaim from critics and ... more

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The Routledge Companion to Cinema & Gender

Kristin Lené Hole, Dijana Jelaca, E. Ann Kaplan, Patrice Petro (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2016), xix, 492 pp.

"The contributions in this volume address a variety of geographical and cultural contexts through an analysis of cinema, from the representation of women and Islam in Middle Eastern film, and female audience reception in Nigeria, to changing class and race norms in Bollywood dance sequences. The boo ... more

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Zwischen Hollywood und Bollywood: Das Autorenkino Mira Nairs

Lisa Marie Gadatsch

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2015), 520 pp.

"Lisa Marie Gadatsch liefert mit dieser Künstlermonographie eine erste umfassende Studie des filmischen Gesamtwerks der indisch-amerikanischen Regisseurin Mira Nair. Nairs Filme changieren zwischen Arthousekino, Hollywood und Weltkino und reflektieren den vielschichtigen kulturellen Hintergrund der ... more

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Gaze Regimes: Film and Feminisms in Africa

Jyoti Mistry, Antje Schuhmann (eds.)

Johannesburg: Wits University Press (2015), xxxiv, 229 pp.

"Gaze Regimes is a bricolage of essays and interviews showcasing the experiences of women working in film, either directly as practitioners or in other areas such as curators, festival programme directors or fundraisers. It does not shy away from questioning the relations of power in the practice of ... more

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Women and Media in the Middle East: Power Through Self-Expression

Naomi Sakr (ed.)

London; New York: Tauris (2004), viii, 248 pp.

"Is today’s changing media landscape in the Middle East empowering women? This is the first book to address the dynamics of media ecology and women’s advancement in the contemporary Middle East. The book spans both the region and media forms, from Iran’s women’s press, via Maghrebi women fil ... more

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Focus on African Films

Francoise Pfaff (ed.)

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2004), ix, 327 pp.

"Emphasizing post-independent films released since the 1950s and the burgeoning commercial film production of the last decade, Focus on African Films provides unique and pluralistic perspectives on filmmaking throughout Africa. As a whole, the collection highlights the distinct thematic, stylistic, ... more

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Freiräume - Lebensträume: Arabische Filmemacherinnen

Rebecca Hillauer

Bad Honnef: Horlemann (2001), 348 pp.

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Palabra de mujer: Historia oral de las directoras de cine mexicanas (1988-1994)

Isabel Arredondo

Madrid; Frankfurt am Main; Aguascalientes: Iberoamericana; Vervuert; Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes (2001), 221 pp.

"Conjunto de entrevistas -y biofilmografías- con destacadas directoras mexicanas (María Novaro, Busi Cortés, Dana Rotberg, Eva López-Sánchez y Guita Schyfter), además de otras dos con Alfredo Joskowicz y Hugo Hiriart." (Descripción de la casa editorial)

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Sisters of the Screen: Women of Africa on Film, Video, and Television

Beti Ellerson

Trenton, New Jers.; Asmara: Africa World Press (2000), xx, 395 pp.

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Würde oder das Geheimnis eines Lächelns: Frauen-Film-Kultur in der Sowjetunion

Karin Bruns, Silke J. Räbiger, Brigitte Schmidt (eds.)

Zürich: eFeF-Verlag (1990), 236 pp.

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Women in the Media

Paris: UNESCO (1980), 119 pp.

"During International Women's Year in 1975 one of the problems studied was the role of women vis-a-vis the media. This slim book approaches the problem eclectically: Part I. "Inquiry on Participation of Women in Radio, Television and Film in Four Countries (Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and Unit ... more