- What the Movies Taught Me About Being a Woman
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/30/movies/women-in-movies.html - 10 female role models in film
https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/nena8x/10-female-role-models-in-film - Where are the positive female role models in film?
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2012/aug/31/open-thread-female-role-models - Does Film Noir Mirror the Culture of Contemporary America? Women in Film Noir – Lise Hordnes
http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/essays/general/does-film-noir-mirror-the-culture/index.php
(NOTE: “Generally in art there are two archetypal female characters; the whore and the Madonna. In film noir we are introduced to both of these women: the dark, sexual and active spider woman and the maternal virgin.”)
- ‘Look Up Here!’: 5 Female Directors Reject the Male Gaze
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/movies/women-filmmakers-male-gaze.html - More Women Than Ever Are Directing Major Films, Study Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/movies/women-directors-hollywood.html - No man’s land: Céline Sciamma on Portrait of a Lady on Fire
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/interviews/portrait-lady-fire-celine-sciamma-female-sex-art-solidarity - Madonna, Whore, ‘Alanis’
https://www.anothergaze.com/madonna-whore-alanis/ - Fifty years of feminist cinema at the Berlinale: still waiting for a revolution
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comment/festivals/fifty-years-feminist-cinema-berlinale-revolution
- Eye openers: 10 images from Women Make Film: A Road Movie Through Cinema
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/eye-openers-10-images-women-make-film-road-movie-through - A womb of one’s own: a short history of abortion on film
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/history-abortion-film-celine-sciamma-portrait-lady-fire-termination-pregnancy - Invisible women: how film history erases female filmmakers
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comment/invisible-women-how-film-history-erases-female-filmmakers - Maureen Blackwood: “I wanted to make films about lives and issues that were forgotten”
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/interviews/maureen-blackwood-passion-remembrance-perfect-image
NOTE: Article addresses the politics of filmmaking, challenging expectations, representing black beauty and lessons learned as a writer/director)
- Female firsts: four debut features by women at London Film Festival 2018
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/women-on-film - All tease, no tale: Hollywood’s misplaced lady lands
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/women-on-film - Girlfriends on film: the rare case of lifelike female friendships on the big screen
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/girl-friends-film-lifelike-female-friendships-big-screen - Madonna, Whore, ‘Alanis’
https://www.anothergaze.com/madonna-whore-alanis/ - ‘Look Up Here!’: 5 Female Directors Reject the Male Gaze
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/movies/women-filmmakers-male-gaze.html - More Women Than Ever Are Directing Major Films, Study Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/movies/women-directors-hollywood.html - What the Movies Taught Me About Being a Woman
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/30/movies/women-in-movies.html