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EAN : 9780807033456
259 pages
Beacon Press (04/02/2020)
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A brutally honest look at the systemic exclusion of women in film—an industry with massive cultural influence—and how, in response, women are making space in cinema for their voices to be heard.

Generation after generation, women have faced the devastating reality that Hollywood is a system built to keep them out. The films created by that system influence everything from our worldviews to our brain chemistry. When women’s voices are excluded from the... >Voir plus
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This book is a survey of the American film industry and particularly Hollywood. Basically, it's not pretty, really, really not pretty at all... especially for women, whether they are storytellers, directors or actresses.

To bring the audience to understand this study, Naomi begins by revealing, without omitting anything, her own experience as a young actress who graduated from the famous American Academy of Dramatic Arts: the AADA.
If you think that getting out - and already getting in - of the AADA is the royal road to Hollywood, well, you're wrong and Naomi will correct you! That's when the book begins, when the young actress tries, like hundreds of her classmates, to get a part, not even a role! only a casting.
There, everything becomes, creepy, dark, even, unfortunately, often sordid! Well, you're going to tell me, we already knew about this, young actors who wash dishes in a restaurant and live in small shared apartments to survive while they wait to get THE part. But nothing you've seen, heard or read prepares you for this ethnographic dive into Purgatory, as Naomi McDougall Jones calls it.
Girls, especially, are treated like cattle. Worse: the cattle keep their leather, while the girls often have to get rid off not only their clothes, but also their dignity.

Okay, now you're thinking: Well, let them do another job! That's also what I said to myself.
But that's where the book becomes even more interesting... because the author is far from being stupid and asks himself questions, the first of which is this:
'What if I stop wanting to be an actress at all costs?
Should I erase the first wrinkles that threaten my physical youth?
Should I lose four pounds?
Am I too redheaded? Too tall? Too smart?
Am I too much this, not enough that?
Why does my black actress friend only get a part when she does a so-called black accent?
Why don't any producers and distributors trust my director friend?
Why do actresses get fewer lead roles than actors?
Why do female roles have so little script compared to male roles?
Do I have to fit the mold?'

Response from male casting directors and male realisators:
'Don't ask questions, don't make waves, don't open your mouth and hope your career takes off in this world as it is: a Hollywood world in the hands of white men.'

"Well, all right," said Naomi MacDougall Jones...

No! I'm kidding!
Naomi opened her mouth, denounced a vicious system, wrote a book that I highly recommend you read.
First of all because, as Naomi explains, the impact of cinema, of the stories told in cinema has a huge impact on the representation of women in the collective unconscious, a huge impact that the vision that each woman has of herself, around the world.
Second, because the only thing that will help women to be considered equal to men is solidarity. This does not mean fitting into the same mould, having the same political, artistic or other ideas. On the contrary, women must show solidarity while keeping their differences. We are more than a blonde and silly secretary, a brunette femme fatale, a fat black woman and security guard, an Indian woman entangled in tradition, a Mexican woman without a green card.

You think I've revealed the whole book to you? Far from it! Some revelations about what it's really like behind the screen have knocked me over!

Naomi McDougall Jones wants to help us, women, show our diversity, our existence, our intelligence, our variety of body and mind. Alone against Hollywood she dared to be a voice for women, let's read her book to spread this voice, our voice.
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White men have created 95% of the cinematic images we’ve ever seen in American main stream films, have made all the micro-decisions related to the shots, the framing, the lighting, the sound design of movie images that we have ever seen. So powerful is the impact of film and so ubiquitous white men’s perspective in shaping it that their worldview has been normalized to the point of being considered the one true, accurate, and all-inclusive reflection of reality. It is not. It is one narrow prism through which we are all being forced to look.
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