Women in motion pictures.

  • Claude Goretta and Isabelle Huppert

    Judith Kass interviews film director Claude Goretta and actor Isabelle Huppert, the star of his film The Lacemaker. Huppert won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles in 1977 for her role in the film. They discuss the major themes of Goretta’s films and Huppert describes their working process.

  • Women in films / Marjorie Rosen ; interviewed by Jena Blumenfield.

    Jena Blumenfield speaks with feminist film critic Marjorie Rosen, author of “Popcorn Venus: women, movies and the American Dream” (New York: McCann and Geoghegan, 1973). They discuss the role of women in the film industry, how most women’s dialogue was scripted to be witty in the early days of talkies, how women’s roles in the…

  • Films with Joan Mellen / interviewed by Paul McIsaac.

    Paul McIsaac’s guest is Joan Mellen, associate professor of English at Temple University, film critic, and author of “Women and Sexuality in the New Film and “Voices from the Japanese Cinema,” who discusses the character of modern films.