Intro -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Setting the Scene: Women in the Irish film industry -- Susan Liddy -- Revisiting the Past -- Ellen O'Mara Sullivan and Her Role in Early Irish Cinema -- Díóg O'connell -- Feminist Reclamation Politics: Reclaiming Maeve (1981) and Mother Ireland (1988) -- Sarah Edge -- Practitioners and Production Culture -- 'Where Are the Women?' Exploring perceptions of a gender order in the Irish film industry -- Susan Liddy -- Irish Production Cultures and Women Filmmakers: Nicky Gogan -- Laura Canning -- Women Cinematographers and Changing Irish Production Cultures -- Maeve Connolly -- A Cut Above: In conversation with Emer Reynolds -- Susan Liddy -- Documenting Documentary: Liberated enclave or pink ghetto? -- Anne O'brien -- Changing the Conversation: Education, celebration and collaboration -- Educating Gráinne: The role of education in promoting gender equality in the Irish film industry -- Annie Doona -- Activism through Celebration: The role of the Dublin Feminist Film Festival in supporting women in Irish film, 2014-17 -- Karla Healion, Aileen O'driscoll, Jennifer O'meara, Katie Stone -- What If We Had Been the Heroes of the Maze and Long Kesh? Collaborative filmmaking in Northern Ireland -- Laura Aguiar -- Text and Context: Documentary, fiction and animation -- Dearbhla Glynn: Documenting war and sexual violence -- Eileen Culloty -- Pat Murphy: Portrait of an artist as a filmmaker -- Lance Pettitt -- Juanita Wilson: A crusading Irish filmmaker -- Isabelle Le Corff -- Irish Cinema and the Gendering of Space: Motherhood, domesticity and the homeplace -- Ruth Barton -- Authority to Speak: Assessing the progress of gender parity and representation in Irish animation -- Ciara Barrett -- Conclusion.

The chapter Experiencing Male Dominance in Swedish Film Production” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Women, Inequality and Media Work investigates how women experience gender inequality in film and television production industries. Examining women’s place in the production of media is vital to understanding the broader and related question of how women are (mis)represented in media content. This book goes behind the camera to explore the world of women working in media industries and unpacks the systemic gender inequality that they experience at work. It argues that women internalize their experience of gender inequality by adopting various beliefs: whether it is that gender does not matter in the workplace; that the workplace is now post-feminist; or by adopting a sense of self as liminal, neither fully included nor excluded from the industry. Drawing on detailed academic research and empirical investigation, Women, Inequality and Media Work is an important and timely book for students, researchers and those working in media industries.

This book provides an accessible, comprehensive discussion of how a small national cinema can remain relevant in the wider environment of globalisation. It includes chapters on the creative documentary, animation and the horror film, as well as Irish history on screen and the depiction of the countryside and the city.

Analysing historical and contemporary examples, this book offers a thematically-informed synthesis of influential research on Irish audio-visual culture.

Women Screenwriters is a study of more than 300 female writers from 60 nations, from the first film scenarios produced in 1986 to the present day. Divided into six sections by continent, the entries give an overview of the history of women screenwriters in each country, as well as individual biographies of its most influential.

Identifies an emerging genre within the contemporary Egyptian novel that reflects a new consciousness

What does it mean to be a documentary filmmaker in today's world? How are new technologies changing documentary filmmaking? What new forms of documentary are emerging? Recent technological developments have made the making and distribution of documentary films easier and more widespread than ever before. Creative Documentary: Theory and Practice is an innovative and essential guide that comprehensively embraces these changing contexts and provides you with the ideas, methods, and critical understanding to support successful documentary making. It helps the aspiring 'total filmmaker' understand the contemporary contexts for production, equipping you also with the understanding of creativity and visual storytelling you'll need to excel. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, it outlines the contemporary, institutional, practical and financial contexts for production - always encouraging innovation and originality. Key features: Five sections covering creativity and creative documentary and the contemporary creative industries: strategies for developing documentary ideas; the art of documentary narrative; digital production methods; new documentary forms; distribution and financing. Provides a comprehensive overview of critical thought and techniques in digital documentary filmmaking. Authors and specialist contributors combine the experience, knowledge and skills of academics and media professionals working in the industry. Practical case studies support analysis and reflection. Exercises, checklists, interviews with professionals and further reading materials accompany each chapter. A historical overview of world documentary. Creative Documentary: Theory and Practice is an essential guide for those engaged in the study and practice of documentary theory and making, as well as key reading for those more broadly interested in video, film and media theory and production.

"Women stars in Hollywood were invariably in two categories," said director Otto Preminger. "One group was of women who were exploited by men, and the other, much smaller group was of women who survived by acting like men." Beginning with silent film vamp Theda Bara and continuing with icons like Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe and Raquel Welch, this study of film industry misogyny describes how female stars were maltreated by a sexist studio system--until women like Katharine Hepburn and Bette Davis fought for parity. The careers of Doris Day, Brigitte Bardot, Carole Landis, Frances Farmer, Dorothy Dandridge, Inger Stevens and many others are examined, along with more recent actresses like Demi Moore and Sharon Stone. Women who worked behind the scenes, writing screenplays, producing and directing without due credit, are also covered.

This book explores the challenges facing women from their mid-forties as they attempt to build/maintain careers in the screen industries. Essays are concerned with the intersection of gender and age on screen and behind the camera and how that can create a ‘double jeopardy’. Existing research in this area has been primarily directed to onscreen representation. Female actors, with notable exceptions, struggle to get screen time and expansive roles as they age. Behind the camera, women 45+ also face challenges and roadblocks; to date, less attention has been directed to this group. The cross-cultural research in this collection offers an analysis of representation, on and off screen, touching on film, television, streaming services and film festivals. It includes an exploration of gendered ageism, age bias and stereotyping. It also highlights the achievements of mature female practitioners who, in their work and working lives, embody a resistance to restrictive cultural discourses about ageing women.