Lady Director Adventures In Hollywood Television And Beyond Joyce Chopra by Joyce Chopra 9780872868694, 9780872868687, 0872868699, 0872868680 instant download after payment.

An intimate account of a seminal filmmaker’s development–as a creator and as a woman–both in art & in life.

Hailed by the New Yorker as “a crucial forebear of generations,” award-winning director Joyce Chopra came of age in the 1950s, prior to the dawn of feminism, & long before the #MeToo movement. As a young woman, it seemed impossible that she might one day realize her dream of becoming a film director–she couldn’t name a single woman in that role. But with her desire fueled by a stay in Paris during the heady beginnings of the French New Wave, she was determined to find a way.

Chopra got her start making documentary films with the legendary D.A. Pennebaker. From her ground-breaking autobiographical short, Joyce at 34 (which was acquired for NY MoMA’S permanent collection), to her rousingly successful first feature, Smooth Talk (winner of the Best Director & Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 1985),
to a series of increasingly cruel moves by Hollywood producers unwilling to accept a woman in the director’s role, Chopra’s career trajectory was never easy or straightforward.

In this engaging, candid memoir, Chopra describes how she learned to navigate the deeply embedded sexism of the film industry, helping to pave the way for a generation of women filmmakers who would come after her. She shares stories of her bruising encounters with Harvey Weinstein & Sydney Pollack, her experience directing Diane Keaton, Treat Williams, and a host of other actors, as well as her deep friendships with Gene Wilder, Arthur Miller, & Laura Dern.

During a career spanning six decades, Joyce Chopra has worked through monumental shifts in her craft & in the culture at large, & the span of her life story offers a view into the implacable momentum of the push for all womens’ liberation.