Women Who Run The Show By Molillie Gregory

The search for equality within the film industry has been very much a subject of contention over the years, and even now, is still a source struggle for all women within the industry. Whether women are actors or producers, directors or screenwriter, behind-the-scenes or talent, they knew that their dream of making it in the world of filmmaking will come with many obstacles. They would have to work twice as hard as men, only to be payed less than the majority of them.

In her book, Women Who Run The Show: How a Brilliant and Creative New Generation of Women Stormed Hollywood, Mollie Gregory tells the story of women, who, despite the knowledge that their path would be an arduous one, did everything in their power to accomplish their dreams, fought

She decided to organize the accounts and observation, not by area of influence or the various work positions of the women, but rather by decade, in a chronological order, to highlight and emphasize the changes made, or not made, through the years. Every single account is told honestly, and from a voice, conscious that they'd never been truly ask to share their experience. The idea that these incredible women have paved the way for generations to come, suffered though sexual harassment, pay inequality, lack of recognition, false reputations, erroneous perceptions and expectations, and overall obstacles in their paths, only to find that they are their stories are not worth sharing was shocking to the writer of Women Who Run The Show, as it most likely was for every reader. She therefore set out to remedy this, and give these women back their voices, and the recognition they deserve. Mollie Gregory did so by highlighting both the strength and the weakness of these women, making the telling of the stories at time unsettling, and at times hopeful and

But if they did well, it as an exception" (Gregory 136). Brianne Murphy was a cinematographer, in the 1980s, becoming the first female director of photography to work for a major studio motion picture, the film Fatso, which came out in 1980. She went on to be the first woman admitted to the local cameraman's union in 1975, the first woman to be a member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) in 1983. In 1982, Murphy won an Academy Award for Scientific and Engineering Achievement, and was nominated for four Emmys for cinematography. And Brianne Murphy was on the women interviewed by Mollie Gregory, a woman who's name is unknown by most of the people actively working in the industry, or taught to film students who are hoping to join