Women and Hollywood

Melissa Silverstein is a writer, blogger and marketing consultant with an expertise in the area of social media regarding women and Hollywood. She is the founder and editor of Women and Hollywood, one of the most respected sites for issues related to women and film as well as other areas of pop culture. She is the Artistic Director and co-founder of the Athena Film Festival – A Celebration of Women and Leadership at Barnard College in NYC. The third annual festival will take place from February 7-10, 2013.

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Video Watch: Shit Girls Say About the Show Girls

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Produced by Rex (Rachael Mason, Kerry McGuire, Stephanie Bencin). Girls just got renewed for a second season.

By Melissa Silverstein
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May 2, 2012 10:50 AM
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Television

I started today watching the harrowing Academy Award winning documentary Saving Face directed by Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. The film tells the story of women in Pakistan who have been disfigured and mutiliated by their loved ones just because they are women. The women tried to escape abuse or bad marriages and the price they paid was their faces. It is brutal.

By Melissa Silverstein
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March 8, 2012 1:00 PM
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Television

Gotta love this.

By Melissa Silverstein
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March 8, 2012 10:45 AM
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Bring it on. Series premiere on April 22.

By Melissa Silverstein
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February 28, 2012 10:33 AM
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No more teases. This is the real albeit short trailer. It's Tiny Furniture but with HBO money.

By Melissa Silverstein
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February 21, 2012 10:24 AM
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I seriously have not been this excited about a Nicole Kidman movie in a long time. Based on the voice over it should be named Gellhorn and Hemingway but as is typical with women in history, she seems to have disappeared from our consciousness and he is, well...Hemingway.

By Melissa Silverstein
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February 7, 2012 9:26 AM
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Blogs

I found this brief behind the scenes one minute and forty two second piece from the upcoming HBO series Girls created by Lena Dunham and after I watched it I could not help but think that this show could be a game changer.