Warriors at Work
Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors & the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema
By Maya Montañez Smukler, Rutgers University Press, $29.95
IN THE 1970S, THE DOOR TO FEATURE FILMMAKING IN HOLLYWOOD was forced open just wide enough for 16 white women to get in. In , Maya Montañez Smukler traces the intersection are Smukler’s studies of each of the directors in question: Penny Allen, Karen Arthur, Anne Bancroft, Joan Darling, Lee Grant, Barbara Loden, Elaine May, Barbara Peeters, Joan Rivers, Stephanie Rothman, Beverly Sebastian, Joan Micklin Silver, Joan Tewkesbury, Jane Wagner, Nancy Walker, and Claudia Weill.
