The rise of the difficult and usually male 'genius' film director presented a huge hurdle for women in Hollywood, but things may finally be changing.
But they are rarely remembered as such, says O'Hara, who is also the author of Women Versus Hollywood: the Fall and Rise of Women in Film.
O'Hara says with the auteur came a reverence for the artistic genius: "someone who is difficult, who is old, who may be rude and who's almost certainly male"."We started to kind of deify these male genius directors [and] it was an extra burden and an extra hurdle for women to overcome."Some of the hurdles for female directors are now being dismantled, says Elissa Down, an Australian film and TV director based in the US.
But Down, who also teaches directing, says there's a palpable shift in attitudes among a new generation of directors, and a striking difference in the ways girls and women speak about themselves.
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