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How Hollywood squeezed out women directors; plus, what's with the rich jerks on TV?

How Hollywood squeezed out women directors; plus, what's with the rich jerks on TV?

It's Been a Minute vor 3 Jahren

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In nearly 100 years, the Oscar award for Best Director has only
gone to three women. The film industry as a whole has been heavily
dominated by men, but it wasn't always this way. Ahead of Academy
Awards, Brittany chops it up with Maya Montañez Smukler, author of
Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of
1970s American Cinema, to discuss the state of women directors and
how the industry systematically shifted them out of the
spotlight.

Then, we ask Chicago Tribune TV and film critic Nina Metz about the
oversaturation of fictional, churlish billionaires on screen - and
why there should be more depictions of the workers they
exploit.

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