From the Margins to the Mainstream: Women in Film and Television

This book explores the various issues raised by women's fraught integration into the mainstream in film and television, whether it be off screen as filmmakers and film critics or on screen in film and TV series.

Marianne Kac—Vergne and Julie Assouly consider the varied representations of women in films such as Jackie Brown (1997), Marie Antoinette (2006), It's a Free World… (2007) and Wonder Woman (2017). They particularly look into the overlooked gendered aspects of voice—overs and the adve...