First Draft Episode #328: Helen O’Hara

Helen O’Hara, film critic, editor-at-large for Empire magazine and co-host of the Empire film podcast, talks about her newest non-fiction, Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and RIse of Women in Film and host of its accompanying podcast, Women vs Hollywood With Helen O’Hara.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• The Care Bears Movie (movie)

• My Little Pony: The Movie (movie)

• Black Panther (movie)

• Captain Marvel (movie)

• Terri White, former editor of Empire and author of Coming Undone: A Memoir

• Twilight (movie)

• Chris Hewitt, co-host of the Empire podcast

• Notting Hill (movie)

• Helen’s other books about movies: Best Movies of the 80s and The Superhero Movie Book

• Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema by Maya Montañez Smukler, (Ph.D., Cinema & Media Studies, UCLA) heads the research and study center at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

• Shelley Stamp, film historian, professor at UCSC, and author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood and Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture After the Nickelodeon

• Karen Ward Mahar, professor of history and the co-director of the American Studies Program at Siena College, and author of Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood

• The Best Pick podcast

• The Golden Compass (movie)

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (movie)

• Reservoir Dogs (movie)

• Home Alone (movie)

• Ava DuVerney directed Selma, A Wrinkle in Time, and many more films

• Squid Game (Netflix TV show)

• Parasite (movie)

• Becoming by Michelle Obama

• Wonder Woman (2017 movie)

• Jurassic World (movie)

• Petit Maman (movie)

• On the Basis of Sex (movie)

• Shut Up and Sing (documentary)

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• Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, media mavens, co-hosts of the phenomenal Call Your Girlfriend podcast, and debut co-authors of friendship memoir Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close.

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