"martha-griffiths" Articles & Blogs:
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Dr. Martha Lauzen
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I know I beat the drum consistently for Kathryn Bigelow but I want everyone to remember that if, and when she wins, the best director award at the Oscars on Sunday it will be only the beginning. Don’t let anyone fool you into thinking things are eq...[Read on] |
Congratulations, Martha Coakley!
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This post was written by WCF Fellow, Stephanie Glover
Congratulations, Martha. After winning the Massachusetts Democratic primary, you are on your way to becoming the first female senator from...
This is a content summary only. Visit Women and Politics f...[Read on] |
Women Directors Talk Permeable Wall
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Martha Coolidge
A bunch of high profile female directors (Martha Coolidge, Penelope Spheeris, Catherine Hardwicke, Kimberly Peirce) participated in a symposium at Chapman University in CA this past weekend called Women in Focus. They spoke about the di...[Read on] |
Ford Teams up with Martha Stewart to give away "Warriors in Pink" Taurus
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Ford Warriors in Pink, now in its 15th year of support for breast cancer health, recently joined forces with Martha Stewart to focus on breast cancer treatments and awareness with a special Warriors in Pink episode of her television show.
For many year...[Read on] |
Top people in media according to the Guardian
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The Guardian has issues its top 100 people in media list. Women make up on 18 of the 100.
Here is the criteria to get on the list:
A panel of experienced media watchers from the worlds of politics, journalism, advertising, television and the interne...[Read on] |
The power of the telephone: feminism, sports and social change
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Billie Jean King. Photo credit: Blog.taragana.com/sports
I’ve been blogging the past couple of weeks about social media and its impact upon women in sport – mainly due to my own personal interests but also to fulfill a class requirement. This week,...[Read on] |
What the Hell is an Anti-mom?
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One Day at a Time
It’s Emmy preview time and the Hollywood Reporter published a piece The Rise of the TV’s ‘Anti-Moms’ about the types of moms on TV today. Not surprisingly they run the gamut from hapless to neurotic to cruel to superhuman. ...[Read on] |
Nora and Delia Ephron New Off-Broadway Play
| Nora and Delia Ephron. From PatrickMcMullan.com. “It’s the Vagina Monologues without the vaginas” is how the Ephron sisters (writers Nora and Delia) describe their wise and witty little play Love, Loss, and What I Wore, based on the best...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood in the Press
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Women & Hollywood is featured in Ellen Snortland’s column in the Pasadena Weekly.
I’ve been a fan of two women in particular who keep track of women and Hollywood. Melissa Silverstein publishes a weekly newsletter, “Women and Hollywood,” and blog...[Read on] |
2009 was no Year of the Woman in Hollywood
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Just forget all the bullshit you and I are constantly fed (and I sometimes write) about how great things are for women in Hollywood. We did have a better year at the box office with a couple of female led films making it to the top 10, and we did get a ...[Read on] |
Film Gender Gap: More stats on women working behind the scenes in film
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Dr. Martha Lauzen at San Diego State University has for the first time drilled deeper into women’s representation on films looking into the numbers of women production designers, production managers/production supervisors, sound designers, supervising s...[Read on] |
New Research: Women fare better in the indie movie world
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File this under no shit sherlock, but new research from the Center for Study for Women in Television and Film at San Diego State shows that women are more represented on independent films that appear in film festivals than in the top grossing big budget f...[Read on] |
Some Kathryn Bigelow News
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Here’s why awards matter. Kathryn Bigelow who we all know won the best director Oscar this year is receiving two different honors.
Even though she has a distinguished body of work I doubt she would have gotten either had she not kicked butt on The ...[Read on] |
Health Reform: Good for Mothers, Good for Families
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by Julia Kaye, Health Policy Associate, National Women's Law Center
Cross-posted from Say Ahhh!
There is a common misconception that all low-income people -- or, at least, all poor parents -- are eligible for Medicaid. It may derive from a mistaken c...[Read on] |
The still sorry stats on women working behind the scenes on TV
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Martha Lauzen and her team at the Center for Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State U. have updated the statistics on women creatives working behind the scenes during the 2008- 2009 TV season.
Here are the stats: (keep in mind these are...[Read on] |
Women are Everywhere: National Book Critics Circle Finalists
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Remember way back in November when Publisher’s Weekly came up with a list of the top 10 books (not best selling books) of the year and not a single one was written by a woman? Lo and behold the National Book Critics Circle disagrees a bit and has nomi...[Read on] |
Good and Bad Literary News
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Let’s start with the good news.
Women dominate the long list for the Canadian award the Scotiabank Giller Prize. (The prize is named for former reporter Doris Giller.) On the list of 12, women make up 10 of the nominees.
The list includes:
Margare...[Read on] |
Ford's Blue Oval glows pink in the fight against breast cancer
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In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month and to celebrate its 15 years of support of Susan G. Komen for the Cure(R), the world headquarters of Ford's Blue Oval in Dearborn will shine pink on Monday and Tuesday night, with the "Warriors in Pink" symbol g...[Read on] |
On Auction for Charity: Sharon Stone's 1972 Ford LTD convertible
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How would you like to own Sharon Stone's gorgeous 1972 Ford LTD convertible? It's powered by a 400-cid V-8 engine mated to an automatic transmission. Additional features include power brakes, power steering, power operated top, and AM/FM/CD stereo system...[Read on] |
Mississippi River Project: When the levee breaks
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Monday morning, I drove down to Rosedale and headed first to the library, where Martha the librarian gave me an excellent orientation to the town and its history. Turns out this area was a big center for making moonshine during Prohibition — instead o...[Read on] |
How will more Best Picture Nominees effect women?
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The Academy blew the minds of pretty much everyone following the film business by doubling the Best Picture nominees starting this year. So instead of five best picture nominees there will be ten.
The news was greeted with mixed emotions (as expected) ...[Read on] |
Interview with Sandra Nettlebeck: Writer/Director of Helen
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I didn’t really know much about Helen (except that it was going to be released this summer) until I got an email from Sandra Nettlebeck, the director asking me what I knew about when her film was coming out. I was surprised to get the email from a w...[Read on] |
Six screen goddesses who transformed femininity through film
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Beautiful. Smart. And sometimes dangerous. These women singlehandedly transformed female roles on the big screen. Who can forget Elizabeth Taylor as the Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra or Katharine Hepburn as the British Methodist missionary in “The African ...[Read on] |
Sundance 2011 – The U.S. Competition
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The competition in both the dramatic and documentary categories for the 2011 edition of the Sundance Film Festival were announced yesterday. Women directed 25% of the films in dramatic and 43% of the films in the documentary competitions respectively....[Read on] |
Changing the Culture that Creates…. Us
| (Ed. Note: Author Crystal Allene Cook is the former executive director of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.)
Whispering Wall
At the beginning, none of us probably really understood what was needed to
do the job. Granted, I’d been invol...[Read on] |
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