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Women in Film members receive free admission to this series at the box office!
"This carefully curated collection of 20th century depictions of women’s work... has become an eye-opening showcase." — April Wolfe, Los Angeles Magazine
Whether as secretaries or corporate executives, copy editors or factory employees, journalists or phone sex workers, American women have occupied a significant role in the workforce since the dawn of the 20th century. Given recent accounts, however, of rampant abuse, sexual misconduct, and general harassment toward women working in Hollywood, politics, the media and other industries, it’s clear that the workplace is still not the safest space for women to inhabit. At various cultural moments, classic Hollywood and independent films have assumed varying ideological responses to address the state of women in the office, in the factory, and beyond. In the pursuit of assessing how the nuanced, complicated experiences of women at work have been represented throughout the 20th century, the Archive presents 13 films, from the early 1930s to the late 1990s, that offer a survey of working women: their employment and its impact on their social life, their frustrations, their failures, and their triumphs. In highlighting not just the day-to-day duties these ladies are paid to perform, but also the obstacles nearly all of them strive to overcome, we hope this series will give audiences a chance to consider, reclaim, and embrace the otherwise minimized act of female labor.
Additional screenings in this series will take place at Veggie Cloud on March 8 and 22. Visit veggiecloud.net for more info.
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