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Chopra, JoyceSummary: In 2008 Hollywood filmmaker, Jennifer Lynch traveled to India to direct Hisss, a tale about the vengeful snake goddess, Nagin. This documentary captures her experience in the chaotic world of Bollywood-Hollywood filmmaking where "chaos is the process and filmmaking doubles as a crash course in acceptance and self-realization"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DESSummary: An epic exploration of cinema history through the lens of some of the world's greatest directors, all of them women. Four years in the making and told in 40 chapters, this inspiring fourteen-hour road trip is narrated by Tilda Swinton, Jane Fonda, Debra Winger, Adjoa Andoh, Kerry Fox, Thandie Newton, and Sharmila Tagore. This epic historical journey explores life, love, politics, humor, and death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC WOMSummary: In the early decades of cinema, some of the most innovative and celebrated filmmakers in America were women. Alice Guy-Blaché helped establish the basics of cinematic language, while others boldly continued its development: slapstick queen Mabel Normand (who taught Charlie Chaplin the craft of directing), action star Grace Cunard, and LGBTQ icon Alla Nazimova. Unafraid of controversy,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Classics 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIOChopra, Joyce
Summary: "Hailed by the New Yorker as "a crucial forebear of generations," award-winning director Joyce Chopra came of age in the 1950s, prior to the dawn of feminism, and long before the #MeToo movement. As a young woman, it seemed impossible that she might one day realize her dream of becoming a film director-she couldn't name a single woman in that role. But with her desire fueled by a stay in Paris...
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights 2022