Is that a gun in your pocket?
Subtitle: women's experience of power in Hollywood
By: Rachel Abramowitz
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780679437543
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry; Frau; Geschichte; Filmschaffende
Description: Includes: Jodie Foster, Penny Marshall, Dawn Steel, Sue Mengers, Sherry Lansing, Polly Platt, Barbra Streisand, Paula Weinstein, Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, Meryl Streep, Jane Campion, Amy Heckerling, Callie Khouri, and Joan Tewkesbury, among others.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [447]-481) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Rough beginnings -- -- 2.; title: Unmarried women -- -- 3.; title: Sue Mengers is hatched -- -- 4.; title: Women create -- -- 5. A; title: different kind of child -- -- 6. The; title: arsenal of seduction -- -- 7. The; title: power of Barbra Streisand -- -- 8.; title: Pretty babies -- -- 9.; title: D-girls on the rise -- -- 10. The; title: film school imperative -- -- 11. The; title: assumption of power -- -- 12. War games -- 13.; title: Broken bonds -- -- 14. The; title: dawn of a new age -- -- 15.; title: Women direct -- -- 16.; title: Owning your voice -- -- 17.; title: Go-go years at Paramount -- -- 18.; title: Psyches on-screen -- -- 19. A; title: legend returns -- -- 20.; title: Cultural icons -- -- 21.; title: Steel in the furnace -- -- 22. The; title: demise of Sue : the rise of the Sue-ettes -- -- 23.; title: Leading-lady blues -- -- 24.; title: Indecent proposal -- -- 25. A; title: giant leap -- -- 26. A; title: queen's prerogative -- -- 27.; title: I'll do anything -- -- 28. The; title: world needs a rewrite -- -- 29. The; title: butterfly chasers -- -- 30.; title: Fade to black.