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Grrrl on Film-Lois Lane, A Brief Herstory of the Daily Planet’s Star Reporter in Film: Part One!

Movies post by Ink-Stained Amazon on August 17, 2009 - 4:43pm; tagged Brenda Starr, Girl Reporter, Lois Lane, Nancy Drew, Sob Sister, Torchy Blane, women in film, Women in Journalism.
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The newspaperman, and newspaperwoman, have long captured the American imagination – and reporters, anchors, and even photojournalists have served as the protagonists in comics, animation, television and film.

As a woman writer and pop culture herstorian I can’t help but be drawn to places in pop culture where women and journalism intersect – and that means I absolutely adore Lois Lane.

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She is not the first woman reporter in popular culture, but Lois is likely the most recognizable – and certainly the longest lasting in the American cultural consciousness, having debuted alongside Superman and Clark Kent in 1938.

Like many real-life women reporters of her day, Lois Lane began her career writing romance columns and covering other "women’s news." Rather than spend her career as a "sob sister", she was anxious to tackle more challenging material, but her editor assigned the hard-hitting stories to Lois’ journalistic rival, Clark Kent, and insisted the work was too important for "a girl."

 

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Grrl on Film: Mildred Pierce Redux?

Movies post by Ink-Stained Amazon on August 14, 2009 - 3:16pm; tagged Joan Crawford, Kate Winslet, Mildred Pierce, Noir, women in film.
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Readers, we are living an era of ill-advised remakes of already great (or at the very least, already classic movies). Titles allegedly in the re-works include: Red Dawn, Red Sonja, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Total Recall, Barbarella, Short Circuit, and The Karate Kid. So this morning’s report from Variety about a new adaptation of James M. Cain’s novel, Mildred Pierce, had me exhaling a huge sigh. According to the report, Todd Haynes, who wrote and directed I’m Not There and Far From Heaven, is slated to write and direct a miniseries staring Kate Winslet with the possibility that it will air on HBO.

While I’d watch Winslet do anything after her guest appearance on Extras, and she can surely go toe-to-toe acting wise with the original film’s star, Joan Crawford, who won an Academy award for the role, I wondered if a new version would have anything different to offer.

 

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Grrrl on Film-Female Directors: A Film Herstory Awareness Post

Movies post by Ink-Stained Amazon on August 10, 2009 - 3:51pm; tagged Angela Robinson, Directors, Guerrilla Girls, Gurinder Chadha, Karyn Kusama, Kathryn Bigelow, women in film.
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Sarah Mirk’s post last month, Beat the Majority - Name a Female Scientist, reminded me of an ad I saw several years ago for a Women in Film festival here in Seattle. In it, a dominatrix flanked by muscle men is asking a man in an interrogation chair if he can name five female directors – five female directors who weren’t actresses first. Of course, he can’t, and the dominatrix proceeds to list all the directors included in that year’s festival line-up. While many accomplished actresses have also directed – Barbara Streisand, Jodie Foster, Ida Lupino, Sofia Coppola, Penny Marshall, and Diane Keaton – to name but a few; it could be argued that it was their acting that helped them break into directing. This should in no way belittle any of their accomplishments, but what about women who set out to direct in the first place, without the benefit of already being recognized?

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Spotlight on Tarantino Part 3: The Clip Show!

Movies post by Ink-Stained Amazon on August 7, 2009 - 5:49am; tagged Christie Love, Female Action Heroes, Honey West, Kill Bill, Lady Snowblood, Modesty Blaise, Pam Grier, Quentin Tarantino, women in film, Zoe Bell.

Thank you all for a great conversation this week regarding the question “Is Quentin Tarantino a feminist?”

Responses were as varied as could be expected and ranged from expressions of the power and strength one may feel after watching Zoë, Abernathy, and Kim, and a desire to adapt Beatrix Kiddo’s better qualities; resilience, confidence and physical prowess.

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Director Spotlight on Quentin Tarantino, Part 2

Movies post by Ink-Stained Amazon on August 5, 2009 - 6:41am; tagged Female Action Heroes, Quentin Tarantino, women in film.
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Many thoughtful points have been made regarding Part 1 of this discussion both at the Bitch Blog website and on Bitch’s Facebook Page.

Before we head on to Part 2, I’d like to encourage y’all to check out an excerpted sampling of comments . . .

 

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In her Director Spotlight on Quentin Tarantino, the Grrrl on Film Asks the Question “Is He a Feminist?”

Movies post by Ink-Stained Amazon on August 3, 2009 - 3:27pm; tagged Female Action Heroes, Kill Bill, Quentin Tarantino, women in film.
After several years, a lot of script work and much trademark frenetic verbosity, writer/director Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited Inglourious Basterds – his "bunch of guys on a mission" film set during the Second World War – finally premieres on the 21st of this month.

With a nearly all-male cast it’s arguably a return to the tough-guy roots of his earlier movies Reservoir Dogs (1992) and Pulp Fiction (1994), where manly-men bantered over such topics as the meaning of Madonna’s "Like a Virgin" and the global appeal of hamburgers – regardless of whether they’re measured in imperial or metric units.

But the famously fast-talking cinephile’s works of the past decade have not been meditations on masculinity, rather they are odes to women warriors of B-movies past – women we've been highlighting and exploring to some extent in this blog. Tarantino drew influence from such iconic characters as the hot-headed go-go dancer Varla of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965), the vigilantes Coffy & Foxy Brown, and the Samurai, Lady Snowblood, (as well as his own mother), to create some of the most intriguing and racially diverse female characters in contemporary American film.

Though they often repeat the contradictions inherent in representations of women in Exploitation films, and thus come from already problematic source material, the kick-ass heroines of Jackie Brown (1991), Kill Bill (2003 & 2004), and Death Proof (2007) still show visceral examples of female power that women can get excited about.

So this week we’ll take an in-depth look at these characters and Tarantino’s work, and hopefully have a discussion regarding the question: "Is Quentin Tarantino a feminist?"

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Kicking Ass and Taking Names: An Actress Spotlight on Tura Satana

Movies post by Ink-Stained Amazon on August 1, 2009 - 5:12pm; tagged B-movie, Tura Satana, women in film.

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"You can still be feminine and have balls." – Tura Satana

Like Jean Seberg, who was profiled here last week,Tura Satana is an actress with a larger than life biography. She was born in Hokkaidō, Japan in 1935 to a silent movie actor and a contortionist . . .

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Where No Woman Has Gone Before: An Actress Spotlight on Nichelle Nichols

Movies post by Ink-Stained Amazon on July 29, 2009 - 12:48pm; tagged NASA, Nichelle Nichols, Start Trek, Truck Turner.
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Stretching the definition of "film" just a bit for today’s Grrrl on Film Actress Spotlight as Nichelle Nichols (1932-) is most recognized for her television, and later film, role as Lt. Nyota Uhura.

 

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Whiteout and Women On Screen

Movies post by Ink-Stained Amazon on July 27, 2009 - 12:33pm; tagged comics, Eliza Dusku, Greg Rucka, Kate Beckinsale, Sigourney Weaver, Whiteout, Women in Comics, women in film, Zoe Saldana.
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The trailer for the long-awaited movie adaptation of Greg Rucka’s and Steve Lieber's Whiteout premiered last week, and the crime-thriller starring Kate Beckinsale looks pretty damn good. But why, oh why, did they need to include a shower scene in the freaking trailer?

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Actress Spotlight: Jean Seberg

Movies post by Ink-Stained Amazon on July 24, 2009 - 4:10pm; tagged Breathless, Jane Fonda, Jean Seberg, Vanessa Redgrave, women in film.

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Jean Seberg is one of those fascinating Hollywood stories that reads like the plot of a dark Hollywood movie. Her tragic story is lesser known than say, Marilyn Monroe’s – though she was just as great a beauty. And her politics caused more damage to her life than that of her acting contemporaries – ultimately leading to her death at the all too young age of 40.

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