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By Deborah Jermyn
ISBN-10: 1628921749
ISBN-13: 9781628921748
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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