Gender Equality in British Film-making: Research, Targets, Change
In October 2017, the British Film Institute declared that it would commit to specific targets for gender equality and diversity in key production roles on films with support from the Film Fund. This decision by the BFI to set targets, arguably, did not co
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Edited by Susan Liddy
Women in the International Film Industry “Being the Director of a program whose goal is to bring more female voices and female-focused stories into mainstream media, this book is sorely needed. My students are always bemoaning how little women are mentioned in the major texts of screenwriting history that they have used in their coursework and they long for books like this that represent the world they will enter and give them the support to make the changes necessary for all artists to succeed at telling a range of stories.” —Rosanne Welch, Executive Director, Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting “This is an important collection that helps us to think about and navigate the film industry and its ongoing inequalities. It has international scope, showcasing a range of places, policies and perspectives. And most crucially, it centres the voices and stories of women, both on- and off-screen.” —Bridget Conor, Senior Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London “This project couldn’t be more timely. Liddy’s collection of essays on women in film is geographically all-encompassing, with contributions from across Europe as well as Australia, New Zealand, Nigeria and the United States. Taken together, they reveal how much we hold in common when it comes to addressing gender inequalities. Key questions emerge around the effectiveness of quotas, access to finance, career sustainability, and the power of role models. Most importantly, the writing style is uniformly accessible; arguments are backed up with data, and the message is clear—we can make it happen and we must.” —Ruth Barton, Head of School of Creative Arts, Trinity College Dublin “Women in the International Film Industry: Policy, Practice and Power makes an important contribution to our understanding of the scope and scale of gender inequality in the global film industry in the twenty-first century. This vibrant, timely, and comprehensive collection by leading academics draws from a range of disciplinary and methodological approaches to interrogate the ongoing international struggles to document and redress systemic gender inequality throughout the film value chain. The authors offer an advanced analysis of the gendered dynamics of work and labour markets, and the feminist activism and policy frameworks that shape them, that will be of substantial intellectual and practical value to scholars, film professionals, activists, and policy-makers for many generations.” —Amanda Coles, Deakin University, Australia
“Over the last several years the movement for inclusion in the film industry has gained international momentum and one key to that growth has been research and data. Women in the International Film Industry: Policy, Practice and Power, edited by Susan Liddy, is an important tool in the push for equality, organizing real data from across the globe—because change does not happen in a vacuum. These important analyses give the activists in each country the ammunition needed to hold decision makers accountab
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