{"product_id":"nancy-meyers-9781501358906","title":"Nancy Meyers","description":"\u003cp\u003eNancy Meyers is acknowledged as the most commercially successful woman filmmaker of all time, described by Daphne Merkin in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e on the release of \u003ci\u003eIt's Complicated\u003c\/i\u003e as \"a singular figure in Hollywood - [she] may, in fact, be the most powerful female writer-director-producer currently working\". Yet Meyers remains a director who, alongside being widely dismissed by critics, has been largely absent in scholarly accounts both of contemporary Hollywood cinema, and of feminism and film. Despite Meyers' impressive track record for turning a profit (including the biggest box-office return ever achieved by a woman filmmaker at that timefor \u003ci\u003eWhat Women Want\u003c\/i\u003e in 2000), and a multifaceted career as a writer\/producer\/director dating back to her co-writing \u003ci\u003ePrivate Benjamin\u003c\/i\u003e in 1980, Meyers has been oddly neglected by Film Studies to date. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncluding Nancy Meyers in the Bloomsbury Companions to Contemporary Filmmakers rectifies this omission, giving her the kind of detailed consideration and recognition she warrants and exploring how, notwithstanding the challenges authorship holds for feminist film studies, Meyers can be situated as a skilled 'auteur'. This book proposes that Meyers' box-office success, the consistency of style and theme across her films, and the breadth of her body of work as a writer\/producer\/director across more than three decades at the forefront of Hollywood, (thus importantly bridging the second\/third waves of feminism) make her a key contemporary US filmmaker. Structured to meet the needs of both the student and scholar, Jermyn's volume situates Meyers within this historical and critical context, exploring the distinctive qualities of her body of work, the reasons behind the pervasive resistance to it and new ways of understanding her films.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeborah Jermyn\u003c\/b\u003e is a Reader in Film and Television at Roehampton University, UK. She is the author and editor of numerous books exploring women, feminism and popular culture including \u003ci\u003eFemale Celebrity and Ageing: Back in the Spotlight \u003c\/i\u003e(2013), \u003ci\u003eSex and the City \u003c\/i\u003e(2009) and \u003ci\u003eHollywood Transgressor: The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow \u003c\/i\u003e(2003).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50873437618450,"sku":"9781501358906","price":52.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_91914642-e3e4-4856-b411-4868e3d3738f.jpg?v=1737934410","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nancy-meyers-9781501358906","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}