![]() Now I’m understanding what inspired her to write a movie about two heroines who won’t take any s**t. Her background was in music video production cut to clips of a hair metal band motorcycling to numerous strip clubs. Instead, even into the 1980’s, women were used, as screenwriter-director Callie Khouri ( Thelma and Louise, Nashville) reports, for ornamentation. I expected that the 1960’s cultural revolution and women’s liberation would have a pronounced effect on movies. So what sorts of messages are being sent out by this powerhouse of WEIRD ( Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic)? Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow shoos away random guy who insists on “helping” her compose a shot. Here’s one bit of datum from the institute: 80% of media consumed worldwide is created in the United States. Geena Davis also appears repeatedly (ahem, she is an executive producer of TCE) with stats from the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. Henson, Shonda Rhimes, Sandra Oh, Jessica Chastain, Amandla Stenberg and the holiest of holies: MERYL STREEP. This Changes Everything features interviews with Tracee Ellis Ross, Reese Witherspoon, Chloe Grace Moretz, Taraji P. And plenty of statistics to back up charges of discrimination. Time to look into that with the documentary This Changes Everything, a quick moving investigation into the experiences of women as actors and directors in the industry. Surely other, more modern artistic mediums like film, don’t have such a discriminatory past. I thought artists were in the business of flouting societal norms! In any event, persons who were not trained in the academies were unwelcome to exhibit at the famous Salons where artists found buyers and patrons.** From the late Renaissance through the late nineteenth century, women were barred from enrollment because it would have been flouting societal norms to allow women into figure drawing ie, sketching nude male models. Years later, I stumbled on art historian Linda Nochlin’s groundbreaking essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” The piece covers a lot of ground in the Western art world, but one thing stood out to me: men blocking women from studying at art academies. I figured it must be that (before reliable birth control) women had been too busy caring for children to have time to paint or sculpt.* Why was that? I reasoned that it wouldn’t be for lack of talent because in my school experience, the most talented kids in art class were just as likely to be boys or girls. It wasn’t until I was admiring a Mary Cassatt pastel that I was struck by the fact that virtually all of the artists were men. I lingered among the Degas, Pissarro, Monet and Renoir paintings until last call for the gift shop. I was particularly drawn to the Impressionist works. Women can do anything!įlash forward to a middle school trip to an art museum. Helen grew up, attended college and became a disability advocate and social policy progressive. As a youngster she had a teacher, Anne Sullivan (herself visually impaired) who helped her communicate using a tactile sort of sign language. In elementary school, I attended a performance based on the life of young Helen Keller who had lost her sight and hearing in infancy from an infection. School trips to museums, historic sites and plays. Ah, a blessed break from classroom drudgery. Synopsis: Documentary on women in film, features interviews with women directors and actors. (Streaming on Netflix.)įield Trip. Discussing the merits of Harvey Weinstein spending the rest of his life in prison.
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