Saturday, April 19, 2008

Last night at dinner, my dad told me about a new class at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) where he teaches and where we often meet for TVbyGIRLS.  The course will be offered in the fall and is entitled "Great American Directors: The 80s to the present." Sounds like a good class, right? But here's what got him angry and which will probably also anger you: Out of the list of 13 directors that will be examined in depth in the course, directors like Quentin Tarantino, Alexander Payne and Clint Eastwood, there is not one woman!  It might be understandable in a course about early filmmaking to only include male directors.  But in a class about film from the 80s to the present, leaving out women directors is just unacceptable.

4 comments:

Casey said...

What was the criteria used for selecting the directors?

Jennifer Griffin-Wiesner said...

Wow; that is pretty astonishing.

barbara said...

Rachel, this is a great opportunity for us to send a note to the instructor and recommend he/she add women directors to the list. Who is teaching the course? We could do a group letter from TVbyGIRLS. What does everyone think?

Kirsten;; said...

that is unacceptable...

-=P