TY - JOUR
AU - Gopinath, Swapna
AB - and its prevalence, especially in trade coverage from the considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the film 2000s and the 2010s (114). In addition, Donoghue maintains industry and on female workers, who were disproportion- that the male saturation of the directing world has led to ally impacted by changes related to childcare, health care, leadership styles favoring stereotypically masculine behav- and social support. Turning to another landmark event from ior. Such gendered leadership norms force female directors 2020, Donoghue explores the Black Lives Matter movement and producers to have to prove their competence in ways and studio responses to it, which consisted of large donations that their male counterparts do not. to nonprofit organizations but lacked introspection as to how The gendered regulation of film-festival programming their own systems perpetuate prejudice and inequality. and distribution further exacerbates these issues. Arguing In The Value Gap: Female-Driven Films from Pitch to that film festivals act as powerful gatekeepers that directly Premier, Donoghue succeeds in providing readers with an impact the success of independent productions as they seek engaging, comprehensive view of Hollywood’s institutional- distributors, Donoghue identifies in chapter 4 how major ized gender disparity. Donoghue’s approach, which addresses festivals’ 
TI - Review: Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema, by Swapnil Rai
JF - Film Quarterly
DO - 10.1525/fq.2024.78.1.100
DA - 2024-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-california-press/review-networked-bollywood-how-star-power-globalized-hindi-cinema-by-S5z9KKg0km
SP - 100
EP - 102
VL - 78
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -