In the twenty-first century alone, women filmmakers have succeeded at directing every size, genre, and style of motion picture.Their movies have won Oscars (Free Solo), made actors into household names (Jennifer Lawrence in Winter's Bone), received induction into the Library of Congress's National Film Registry (Real Women Have Curves), and become worldwide box office phenomena (Captain Marvel, Deep Impact). Nevertheless in 2023, the year of Barbie, women directed only 12% of the top 250 movies in America. demonstrating how far moviemaking remains from gender parity. When women filmmakers succeed, they do so against these odds. Break the Frame is a collection of 25 career-spanning interviews with America's celebrated, reigning, and rising women filmmakers. Each conversation considers the director's complete filmography as a map of their evolving artistry and evidence of their unassailable contributions to a historically misogynist industry. Author Kevin Smokler listens as women filmmak
A close look at Steve Bannon's long career working at the crumbling heart of core institutions of US power that shows us the historical context and present contours of the rising spectre of American fascism. Steve Bannon is often identified as the strategic brain behind the rise of Trumpism. But his personal savvy and ideological bombast are not alone responsible for his success at mobilizing masses of Breitbart readers, War Room podcast listeners, and Republican voters in support of a far-right political insurgency in the US. Chaos Agent: Steve Bannon and the New American Fascism shows how Bannon became the communications hub and agent provocateur of the neofascist MAGA wing of the American right. The key to Bannon's success is his mobilization of fantasy and emotion on a mass scale. His method is madness--the triggering of chaos and disruption via paranoid fantasies and apocalyptic visions. Fears of economic collapse and terror of the return of the colonized and oppressed haunt his
