Women Film

Theodosia and her bestie, Sam, are former high school outcasts who find escapism in a popular TV show called Suffer about a victims’ rights advocate named Marcia Suffer. When the TV network that owns Suffer announces a contest—the chance to meet the show’s star, actress Roxy DeVine—Theo and Sam pull out all the stops to win. These days, Theo needs a win—any win—because lately life has been dealing her nothing but suffering.

How to be a Man? That question—and all the anxiety, anger, and resentment it stirs up—is the starting point for a crisis in masculinity that today manifests as misogyny, nativism, and corporate greed; incels and mass shooters; and panic over the rights of women and minorities. According to Jessa Crispin, creator of the celebrated blog BookSlut, it is the most important question of our time, and the answer to it might be found in an unlikely place: the films of Michael Douglas.

Emma Klar, ehemalige Polizistin und nun Privatdetektivin in Wismar, bekommt einen scheinbar einfachen Auftrag. Eine Frau macht sich um einen alten Schulfreund Sorgen, weil er sich lange nicht gemeldet hat. Emma stellt fest, dass Ingo Beyer tatsächlich verschwunden ist. Beyer stand einmal wegen Kindesmordes vor Gericht, er wurde jedoch freigesprochen. Hat sich nun jemand an ihm gerächt? Oder plant er einen neuen Mord? Als Emma eine Leiche findet, glaubt sie, einem Serientäter auf der Spur zu sein, und bittet Johanna Krass vom BKA um Unterstützung.

A lively and colorful biography of Hollywood's first superagent - one of the most outrageous showbiz characters of the 1960s and 1970s, whose clients included Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Faye Dunaway, Michael Caine, and Candice Bergen. Before Sue Mengers hit the scene in the mid-1960s, talent agents remained quietly in the background. But staying in the background was not possible for Mengers.

Hollywood Madonna explores the full saga of Loretta Young's professional and personal life. She made her film debut at age four, became a star at fifteen, and many awards and accolades later, made her final television movie at age seventy-six. This biography withholds none of the details of her affair with Clark Gable and the daughter that powerful love produced. Bernard F. Dick places Young's affair in the proper context of the time and the choices available to women in 1935.

Moviegoers know her as the housekeeper in White Christmas, the nurse in Now, Voyager, and the crotchety choir director in Sister Act. This audiobook, filled with never-published behind-the-scenes stories from Broadway and Hollywood, chronicles the life of a complicated woman who brought an assortment of unforgettable nurses, nuns, and housekeepers to life on screen and stage.

Emma Klar war eine der besten Polizistinnen - bis ein Einsatz schiefging. Nun arbeitet sie in Wismar vorgeblich als Privatdetektivin, in Wahrheit jedoch als verdeckte Ermittlerin. Ihr neuer Fall scheint ein Kinderspiel zu sein: Sie soll einen Mann beschatten, der wegen Totschlags zehn Jahre im Gefängnis saß, dessen Tatmotiv jedoch unklar geblieben ist. Als am Salzhaff zwei bizarre Morde geschehen, glaubt Emma, eine Verbindung zu Klausen zu erkennen.

Emma Klar war eine leidenschaftliche Polizistin. Bis ein Einsatz gegen Mädchenhändler furchtbar schieflief. Sie wurde tagelang gefangen gehalten und wäre fast getötet worden. Nun hat sie sich ins beschauliche Wismar zurückgezogen - angeblich als Privatdetektivin. In Wahrheit jedoch hat man sie angewiesen, verdeckt zu ermitteln. Ihr erster Fall erscheint harmlos. Ein Mann glaubt nicht, dass seine sechzehnjährige Tochter sich umgebracht hat. Routiniert macht sich Emma an die Arbeit.

Mord an Fidelmas Hochzeitstag. Irland, Februar 668: Schwester Fidelma und Bruder Eadulf haben beschlossen zu heiraten. Aus diesem Anlaß sind weltliche und geistliche Würdenträger aus ganz Irland nach Cashel gekommen. Da wird Abt Ultan, ein entschiedener Anhänger des Zölibats, ermordet. Für Fidelma und Eadulf ist jetzt keine Zeit mehr zum Feiern.

Anno Domini 666. In einer irischen Schwesternabtei findet man im Klosterbrunnen eine junge Frau, nackt und enthauptet. Man ruft Schwester Fidelma, eine Nonne königlichen Geblüts, um das Verbrechen aufzuklären. Fidelma, die unabhängige und selbstbewusste Heldin dieser Krimiserie, agiert in einer Welt des frühen Christentums, in der keltische Mythen und Bräuche noch starken Einfluss haben. Toleranz und Aufgeklärtheit der gebildeten Frau sichern ihr Macht und Einfluss.

In From Holmes to Sherlock, Mattias Boström re-creates the full story behind the legendary detective and his many incarnations - a real-life narrative of success, tragedy, and family secrets that has never previously been told in its entirety.

Judy: A Legendary Film Career tells the story of Garland’s movie work in unprecedented detail. Hundreds of never-before-published photos, newly-assembled contemporary reviews, insight from her costars and coworkers, and production histories are provided for each film in which she appeared. Highlighting and complimenting the feature films is a definitive biography; an examination of Judy’s short subjects; details of the movies she did not complete; and an enthralling compendium of film projects for which she was considered or rumored.

With the success of the Wonder Woman movies and the results following the outcry of the #MeToo movement, now is the time to highlight the female influences in film history previously left unheard!

Conversations about gender equity in the workplace accelerated in the 2010s, with debates inside Hollywood specifically pointing to broader systemic problems of employment disparities and exploitative labor practices. Compounded by the devastating #MeToo revelations, these problems led to a wide-scale call for change. The Value Gap traces female-driven filmmaking across development, financing, production, film festivals, marketing, and distribution, examining the realities facing women working in the industry during this transformative moment.

Ava is a tribute to a legendary life. Authors Kendra Bean and Anthony Uzarowski take a closer look at the Academy Award-nominated actress' life and famous screen roles. They also shed new light on the creation and maintenance of her glamorous image, her marriages, and friendships with famous figures such as Ernest Hemingway, John Huston, and Tennessee Williams.

Rufus is super famous, super rich, and super attractive. Women all over the world adore him, but he loves Kelly. Women all over the world will do anything to be with him, and photographers will do anything to get pictures of him. His life belongs to the world, but his heart belongs to Kelly. But is that enough? Can their love survive their different lifestyles, different worlds?

My Journey Through War and Peace: Explorations of a Young Filmmaker, Feminist and Spiritual Seeker is based on Melissa Burch's experiences as a war journalist for BBC, CBS, and other networks. Her team was one of the first documentary crews allowed in the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, and she was featured in a New York Times story about her time in Afghanistan. She was just in her 20s when she traveled with the moujahedeen, filmed an attack on a Soviet convoy, slept with an Afghan commander, and climbed 14,000-foot mountains in the Hindu Kush.

Beyond Bombshells analyzes the cultural importance of strong women in a variety of current media forms. Action heroines are now more popular in movies, comic books, television, and literature than they have ever been. Their spectacular presence represents shifting ideas about female agency, power, and sexuality. This book explores how action heroines reveal and reconfigure perceptions about how and why women are capable of physically dominating roles in modern fiction.

Travel back to the early days of Hollywood to meet twelve women who made it all happen. Twelve diverse actors, directors, writers, editors, designers, and producers who fought against sexism, racism, and prejudice to have their voices heard. And who changed the industry forever. Their influence can still be seen and felt today. Susan Goldman Rubin, who often writes about the arts and who lives near Hollywood, follows the paths these twelve took. Paths that included not only social, economic, and personal struggles but also major triumphs. And whose films are everlasting.

For someone whose career ended over 30 years ago, Audrey Hepburn continues to retain her popularity and exert a strong influence over how people view beauty and sophistication.