The American Film Institute has received a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (to for an unprecedented study of gender parity in the history of American film.
Named for director Lloyd Bacon’s lost 1928 film, the Women They Talk About initiative will explore how gender parity nearly was achieved in the early decades of film — an era in which more women held positions of power than at any other time in the U.S. motion picture industry.
The project will be led by the research team at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films, the authoritative database of every American film released in the first 100 years of the art form. Women They Talk About will use technology to discuss gender roles in the AFI Catalog’s vast collection of more than 500,000 credits in the first century of the film industry, providing new empirical data to support women’s inclusion in the historical narrative.
Named for director Lloyd Bacon’s lost 1928 film, the Women They Talk About initiative will explore how gender parity nearly was achieved in the early decades of film — an era in which more women held positions of power than at any other time in the U.S. motion picture industry.
The project will be led by the research team at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films, the authoritative database of every American film released in the first 100 years of the art form. Women They Talk About will use technology to discuss gender roles in the AFI Catalog’s vast collection of more than 500,000 credits in the first century of the film industry, providing new empirical data to support women’s inclusion in the historical narrative.
- 3/28/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
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