Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Maya Montañez Smukler
• Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
• Dean Brandum

Titel

Hollywood Can’t Wait: Elaine May and the Delusions of 1970s American Cinema

Ist Teil von

• ReFocus: The Films of Elaine May, 2019, p.41

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Elaine May began her career as a filmmaker during the 1970s at a unique moment when the mythology of the New Hollywood male auteur defined the decade; and the number of women directors, boosted by second wave feminism, increased for the first time in forty years.¹ In 1968, May signed with Paramount Pictures to write, direct, and star in A New Leaf (1971); the following year she joined the Directors Guild of America in the feature film director category.² Her membership to the Directors Guild was unusual in 1969: May had only two film credits and they were as an