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By Deborah Jermyn

ISBN-10: 1628921749

ISBN-13: 9781628921748

Nancy Meyers is said because the so much commercially winning lady filmmaker of all time, defined by means of Daphne Merkin in The ny Times at the unencumber of It's Complicated as "a singular determine in Hollywood – [she] may perhaps, actually, be the main robust lady writer-director-producer at the moment working". but Meyers is still a director who, along being generally disregarded by means of critics, has been principally absent in scholarly money owed either one of modern Hollywood cinema, and of feminism and picture. regardless of Meyers' awesome tune list for turning a revenue (including the largest box-office go back ever accomplished via a girl filmmaker at that timefor What ladies Want in 2000), and a multifaceted profession as a writer/producer/director courting again to her co-writing Private Benjamin in 1980, Meyers has been oddly missed through movie experiences thus far.

Including Nancy Meyers within the Bloomsbury partners to modern Filmmakers rectifies this omission, giving her the type of certain attention and popularity she warrants and exploring how, even though the demanding situations authorship holds for feminist movie reports, Meyers may be located as a talented 'auteur'. This ebook proposes that Meyers' box-office good fortune, the consistency of favor and subject throughout her movies, and the breadth of her physique of labor as a writer/producer/director throughout greater than 3 many years on the leading edge of Hollywood, (thus importantly bridging the second/third waves of feminism) make her a key modern US filmmaker. based to fulfill the desires of either the coed and pupil, Jermyn's quantity situates Meyers inside of this old and significant context, exploring the exact features of her physique of labor, the explanations at the back of the pervasive resistance to it and new methods of knowing her films.

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