Category: Women and Hollywood
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Ripley: Believe it or Not, It’s About All That
Originally published by Women and Hollywood When Women and Hollywood asked me if I wanted to do a couple of guest posts on horror movies, I jumped at the chance. Like Kerensa Cadenas mentioned in her introduction to the series, I have an abiding fascination with horror movies and the way they manage to articulate…
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The LA Femme Film Festival: By Women, For Everyone
Originally published by Women and Hollywood Leslie LaPage launched the LA Femme Film Festival in 2005 after a dispiriting trip to the Sundance Film Festival, where she saw precious few films directed or written by women. The first LA Femme festival featured 40 films and two seminars; this year’s festival screened over 100 films, hosted…
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Overcoming Trauma of the Home: Women Gaining Strength in Light of Abuse
Originally posted at Women and Hollywood Much has been made by media critics of the propensity of horror movies to fetishize the murder of women – to make them victims, suffering at the hands of brutal forces for their sexual sins. The slasher films of the ’70s and ’80s as well as their ’90s sequels…
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The Women of Comic Con: How the Internet Killed the Studio Star
During the lead up to this year’s Comic Con International, a Networked Insights analysis of social media conversation showed that 54% of people talking about the conference were women. So when I arrived on Thursday morning I wasn’t surprised to see that women were everywhere as fans, experts, press, and industry. At panel discussions, in…
Holly L. Derr 