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Stuntwomen - The Untold Hollywood Story (Hardcover)
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Stuntwomen - The Untold Hollywood Story (Hardcover)
Series: Screen Classics
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They've traded punches in knockdown brawls, crashed biplanes
through barns, and raced to the rescue in fast cars. They add
suspense and drama to the story, portraying the swimmer stalked by
the menacing shark, the heroine dangling twenty feet below a
soaring hot air balloon, or the woman leaping nine feet over a wall
to escape a dog attack. Only an expert can make such feats of
daring look easy, and stuntwomen with the skills to perform - and
survive - great moments of action in movies have been hitting their
mark in Hollywood since the beginning of film. Here, Mollie Gregory
presents the first history of stuntwomen in the film industry from
the silent era to the twenty-first century. In the early years of
motion pictures, women were highly involved in all aspects of film
production, but they were marginalized as movies became popular,
and more important, profitable. Capable stuntwomen were replaced by
men in wigs, and very few worked between the 1930s and 1960s. As
late as the 1990s, men wore wigs and women's clothes to double as
actresses, and were even "painted down" for some performances,
while men and women of color were regularly denied stunt work. For
decades, stuntwomen have faced institutional discrimination,
unequal pay, and sexual harassment even as they jumped from
speeding trains and raced horse-drawn carriages away from burning
buildings. Featuring sixty-five interviews, Stuntwomen showcases
the absorbing stories and uncommon courage of women who make their
living planning and performing action-packed sequences that keep
viewers' hearts racing.
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