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100 Women, One Hotel, and the Weekend Retreat That Presaged Time's Up By 18 Years by Cari Beauchamp--Vanity Fair How the 1970s Marked a Turning Point for Women Directors in Hollywood by Dan Schindel--Hyperallergic Smukler sees the increase of independently produced features in the '80s as a turning point for women no longer at the mercy of a slow-moving studio system. She's right, though working independently puts the onus of proving artistic and commercial viability directly on individual artists' shoulders, dependent on a world of potentially prejudiced funders with no centralized power to reform, however incrementally. That said, it's impossible to read Liberating Hollywood and not recognize the progress that has been made, even though too much remains sadly familiar. It's still rough out there, but histories like these keep me moving forward. --Film Comment Both long overdue and coming right on time, Liberating Hollywood richly expands our understanding of Hollywood filmmaking in the 1970s. Expertly researched with stories from those who were there, Maya Monta ez Smukler's book tells the stories of female directors working in Hollywood in the 1970s and fighting for their rights as mediamakers. --Miranda Banks author of The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild Maya Monta ez Smukler's Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema is an exciting and topical examination of a transformative group of female filmmakers whose stories and struggles have too often been forgotten. At once an eye-opening analysis and a significant contribution to feminist film scholarship, Liberating Hollywood persuasively challenges the received wisdom about a period of American cinema (the so-called time of Easy Riders and Raging Bulls) in which women are routinely banished to the margins. As Smukler demonstrates, women were always there - making movies, good trouble and American history. --Manohla Dargis film critic for The New York Times A counterintuitive feminist history of the new Hollywood that convincingly challenges widely held assumptions about the boys' club movie brat auteur renaissance. In Liberating Hollywood, Maya Montanez Smukler is remarkably attentive to the industrial as well as sociopolitical histories that made such a new women's cinema and such a suddenly liberated Hollywood possible. --Jon Lewis author of Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles

100 Women, One Hotel, and the Weekend Retreat That Presaged Time's Up By 18 Years by Cari Beauchamp--Vanity Fair A counterintuitive feminist history of the new Hollywood that convincingly challenges widely held assumptions about the boys' club movie brat auteur renaissance. In Liberating Hollywood, Maya Montanez Smukler is remarkably attentive to the industrial as well as sociopolitical histories that made such a new women's cinema and such a suddenly liberated Hollywood possible. --Jon Lewis author of Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles

100 Women, One Hotel, and the Weekend Retreat That Presaged Time's Up By 18 Years by Cari Beauchamp--Vanity Fair Both long overdue and coming right on time, Liberating Hollywood richly expands our understanding of Hollywood filmmaking in the 1970s. Expertly researched with stories from those who were there, Maya Monta ez Smukler's book tells the stories of female directors working in Hollywood in the 1970s and fighting for their rights as mediamakers. --Miranda Banks author of The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild Maya Monta ez Smukler's Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema is an exciting and topical examination of a transformative group of female filmmakers whose stories and struggles have too often been forgotten. At once an eye-opening analysis and a significant contribution to feminist film scholarship, Liberating Hollywood persuasively challenges the received wisdom about a period of American cinema (the so-called time of Easy Riders and Raging Bulls) in which women are routinely banished to the margins. As Smukler demonstrates, women were always there - making movies, good trouble and American history. --Manohla Dargis film critic for The New York Times A counterintuitive feminist history of the new Hollywood that convincingly challenges widely held assumptions about the boys' club movie brat auteur renaissance. In Liberating Hollywood, Maya Montanez Smukler is remarkably attentive to the industrial as well as sociopolitical histories that made such a new women's cinema and such a suddenly liberated Hollywood possible. --Jon Lewis author of Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles

A counterintuitive feminist history of the new Hollywood that convincingly challenges widely held assumptions about the boys' club movie brat auteur renaissance. In Liberating Hollywood, Maya Montanez Smukler is remarkably attentive to the industrial as well as sociopolitical histories that made such a new women's cinema and such a suddenly liberated Hollywood possible.

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MAYA MONTAÑEZ. SMUKLER is head of the UCLA Film & Television Archive Research and Study Center. Her work appears in collections including: Women and New Hollywood: Gender, Creative Labor and 1970s American Cinema, ReFocus: The Films of Elaine May, ReFocus: The Films of Susan Seidelman, and Happily Ever After: Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age.

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