New PDF release: Nancy Meyers (The Bloomsbury Companions to Contemporary

By Deborah Jermyn

ISBN-10: 1628921749

ISBN-13: 9781628921748

Nancy Meyers is said because the so much commercially profitable lady filmmaker of all time, defined via Daphne Merkin in The ny Times at the free up of It's Complicated as "a singular determine in Hollywood – [she] could, in reality, be the main strong woman writer-director-producer presently working". but Meyers continues to be a director who, along being being generally brushed off through critics, has been mostly absent in scholarly bills either one of modern Hollywood cinema, and of feminism and picture. regardless of Meyers' notable song list for turning a revenue (including the largest box-office go back ever completed via a girl filmmaker at that timefor What ladies Want in 2000), and a multifaceted profession as a writer/producer/director courting again to her co-writing Private Benjamin in 1980, Meyers has been oddly ignored by way of movie stories up to now.

Including Nancy Meyers within the Bloomsbury partners to modern Filmmakers rectifies this omission, giving her the type of exact attention and popularity she warrants and exploring how, although the demanding situations authorship holds for feminist movie stories, Meyers may be located as a talented 'auteur'. This ebook proposes that Meyers' box-office luck, the consistency of fashion and subject throughout her motion pictures, and the breadth of her physique of labor as a writer/producer/director throughout greater than 3 many years on the leading edge of Hollywood, (thus importantly bridging the second/third waves of feminism) make her a key modern US filmmaker. based to fulfill the desires of either the coed and pupil, Jermyn's quantity situates Meyers inside of this old and demanding context, exploring the distinct traits of her physique of labor, the explanations at the back of the pervasive resistance to it and new methods of realizing her films.

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