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Women motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.
Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.
Women television producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.
Television producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.
Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
Television broadcasting -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
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Lady director : adventures in Hollywood, television and beyond / Joyce Chopra.
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Chopra, Joyce, author.
San Francisco : City Lights, [2022]
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Chopra, Joyce.
Women motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.
Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.
Women television producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.
Television producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.
Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
Television broadcasting -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
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0872868680 (paperback) :
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"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 during the heady beginnings of the French New Wave, she was determined to find a way. Chopra got her start making documentary films with the legendary D.A. Pennebaker. From her ground-breaking autobiographical short, Joyce at 34 (which was acquired for NY MoMA'S permanent collection), to her rousingly successful first feature, Smooth Talk (winner of the Best Director and Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 1985), to a series of increasingly cruel moves by Hollywood producers unwilling to accept a woman in the director's role, Chopra's career trajectory was never easy or straightforward. In this engaging, candid memoir, Chopra describes how she learned to navigate the deeply embedded sexism of the film industry, helping to pave the way for a generation of women filmmakers who would come after her. She shares stories of her bruising encounters with Harvey Weinstein and Sydney Pollack, her experience directing Diane Keaton, Treat Williams, and a host of other actors, as well as her deep friendships with Gene Wilder, Arthur Miller, and Laura Dern. Along with the successes and failures of her career, she provides an intimate view of a woman's struggle to balance the responsibilities and rewards of motherhood and marriage with a steadfast commitment to personal creative achievement. During a career spanning six decades, Joyce Chopra has worked through monumental shifts in her craft and in the culture at large, and the span of her life story offers a view into the implacable momentum of the push for all womens' liberation"-- Publisher.
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