Office of the Gender and Woman's Studies Librarian

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The Encyclopedia of Sexism in American Films

Editor

Salvador Jimenez Murguía, Erica Joan Dymond, and Kristina Fennelly

Description

Examines more than 130 films.

Year

2020

Reality TV and Queer Identities: Sexuality, Authenticity, Celebrity

Author

Michael Lovelock

Description

Covers American and British television in the 21st century.

Year

2019

The Broadcast 41: Women and the Anti-communist Blacklist

Author

Carol A. Stabile

Description

A related website has additional material about the 41 women blacklisted from radio and television in the 1950s who had tried to offer a more realistic portrayal of US culture in the 1930s and 1940s.

Year

2018

Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film

Author

Kristen Anderson Wagner

Description

Covers the early 1910s to the late 1920s and includes discussion of white performers including Clara Bow, Marion Davies, Dorothy Devore, Marie Dressler, Louise Fazenda, Dorothy Gish, Gale Henry, Alice Howell, Colleen Moore, Polly Moran, Mabel Normand, Mary Pickford, Constance Talmadge, Eva Tanguay, and Fay Tincher.

Year

2018

Dancing with the Nation: Courtesans in Bombay Cinema

Author

Ruth Vanita

Description

Analyzes 235 films.

Year

2018

Women in Soviet Film: The Thaw and Post-thaw Periods

Editor

Marina Rojavin and Tim Harte

Description

Covers the 1960s and 1970s.

Year

2018

Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television

Author

Joy Press

Description

Focuses on Roseanne Barr, Lena Dunham, Diane English, Tina Fey, Ilana Glazer, Abbi Jacobson, Mindy Kaling, Jenji Kohan, Shonda Rhimes, Amy Schumer, Amy Sherman-Palladino, and Jill Soloway.

Year

2018

Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before: Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV

Author

Diana Adesola Mafe

Description

Covers Alien vs. Predator, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Children of Men, Doctor Who, Firefly, and 28 Days Later.

Year

2018

Adapting Gender: Mexican Feminisms from Literature to Film

Author

Ilana Dann Luna

Description

Focuses on adaptations of novels, plays, and short stories made in the 1980s and 1990s.

Year

2018

Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?

Author

Jane M. Gaines

Description

Examines careers of early filmmakers and why feminist historiographers have not previously drawn attention to their work.

Year

2018