Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?: Women's Experience of Power in Hollywood - Hardcover

Abramowitz, Rachel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679437541 ISBN 13: 9780679437543

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2000

Synopsis

Chronicling the lives of Hollywood's revolutionary female filmmakers, the author looks at the movie industry's women power brokers and how they got where they are.

About this title

About the Author:

Rachel Abramowitz has covered Hollywood for the last decade, primarily for Premiere magazine. Her work has also appeared in Mirabella and The New York Times Magazine. She graduated from Yale and lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and son.

From the Inside Flap:

;Women and power-perhaps no other confluence of subjects has launched as many myths, or stirred as much gossip."

Eight years ago, a remarkably talented reporter named Rachel Abramowitz began interviewing the women of Hollywood to, in her words, "puncture the mythology and to circumvent the silence" of this rarefied world. At the time, women directors, agents, producers and studio executives made up only a tiny minority of the industry. Abramowitz wanted to find out what had allowed this handful of women to infiltrate the male-dominated world of moviemaking-and what was keeping other women out. Is That a Gun in Your Pocket? is a vibrant social history that brings to light the previously untold saga of the rise of women in Hollywood over the past forty years.
        
In these pages, some of the most famous, most powerful, and most outrageous members of the film industry go on record with their war stories. Fro

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0679437541
• ISBN 13: 9780679437543
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 494