Break The Frame - Kevin Smokler

'Break the Frame: Conversations with Women Filmmakers' by Kevin Smokler (Oxford University Press 272 page hardback) 

Break the Frame is a collection of 24 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 filmmakers speak to the struggle and triumphs of developing and directing movies that are shaping how the film business sees women in the director's chair, and how their audiences see themselves and each other. This book is both an opportunity and invitation to devote one's time, admiration and enthusiasm to movies directed by women.

Interviewees include Amy Heckerling, Julie Dash, Barbara Kopple, Mimi Leder. Debra Granik,