Shooting Women (EPUB) von Harriet Margolis

Shooting Women takes readers around the world to explore the lives of camerawomen working in features, TV news and documentaries. From pioneers like America's Jessie Maple Patton to China's first camerawomen to women in poverty empowered by cameras in rural India, this book reveals a world of women working with courage and skill in what has long been seen as a male field.

Acknowledgements

Prefaces

From Alexis Karsilovsky

From Harriet Margolis

List of abbreviations

Job titles and some useful definitions

Chapter 1: How do women become camerawomen?

Learning on the job

Still Photography

Film School

Training Programs

Two Examples of Feminist Groups: Women in Film and Behind the Lens

Women-Supportive Workshops and Production Groups

Filming in the Service of Social Activism: Video SEWA and Aina

Collectives

Rental Houses

Chapter 2: How hard can it be?

Gender Discrimination

Unions and Guilds

When Cameras Were Heavy

Helpful Men

Ssh! (Secret Sexual Harassment)

Sabotage

Getting Paid Jobs

Breaking Out of Isolation

Rising through the Ranks

Budgets and Glass Ceiling

Chapter 3: Documentary: A good and satisfying career choice that is statistically friendlier to women that feature fiction filmmaking

Filming History Being Made in China

Documentary: Historical and Personal

Chapter 4: Hollywood, Bollywood, independents, and short forms

Hollywood

Indian Cinema

The Freedom of Independent Films

Music Videos

Commercials and Such

Experimental / Avant-Garde Films and Video

Art Films and Videos

Shooting Special Material: Birth

Chapter 5: Special skills and creativity

Handheld Camerawork

Cranes

Underwater

Helicopters

Special Effects

Lighting as a Cinematographer’s Dream Job

Digital Technology

Style

Chapter 6: Shooting around the world

Erika Addis on Beginning her Career

Arlene Burns on Filming in the Kuril Islands

Yong-Joo Byun on Filming Comfort Women in Korea

Nancy Durham on Filming the Balkan War

Jolanta Dylewska on Filming in Kazakhstan

Sabeena Gadihoke on Filming Three Women and a Camera

Rozette Ghadery on Filming in Kurdistan

Sue Gibson on Filming in Jordan

Joan Giummo on Filming Homeless Women in New York

Agnès Godard Pays Homage to Beauty

Marina Goldovaskaya on Filming History Being Made in Russia

Ellen Kuras on Pivotal Moments in Shooting

Heather Mackenzie on Filming Romanian Orphans

Sandi Sissel on Filming Salaam Bombay!

Agnès Varda on Filming the Human Body

Liz Ziegler on Filming Eyes Wide Shut (1999) for Stanley Kubrick

Chapter 7: Can camerawomen also be women?

Parents

Fathers

Mothers

Friends and Extended Family

Husbands

A Happy Marriage

Pregnancy

Children and Childcare

Daughters

Chapter 8: What’s it really like?

A Typical Day

Where Do Camerawomen Go?

What Do Camerawomen Wear?

Working with the Crew

Working with Directors and Procedures

Acting Like men to Fit In

The Advantages of Being Female

Chapter 9: Magic moments, worst moments

Satisfactions

Worst Moments, Dangers, and Risking One’s Life

Chapter 10: What do Camerawomen see?

Representation and Gender

Ethics

Camerawomen Teaching

“Just Do It”

Aspirations for the Future

List of camerawomen whose interviews are included in this book

Bibliography

Index