http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2012/08/15/gender-and-authorship-in-ruby-sparks/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2012/08/15/gender-and-authorship-in-ruby-sparks/comment-page-1/#comment-246367 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:44:34 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=14875#comment-246367 This is a shrewd reading of Ruby Sparks, Caryn. Thanks for posting it. The film seems to be doing pretty well here in New York. You’re certainly right that its promotion trades heavily on the real-life coupledom of Kazan and Dano. It is striking on those occasions when young women do get funding for a feature film lately they often have Hollywood pedigrees which are not necessarily talked up. In Kazan’s case that may be for rather obvious reasons, but such connections seemed to be repressed also in the case of Tanya Wexler (relation of Haskell Wexler and Darryl Hannah) the director of Hysteria. The issue of family connections also comes up by the way in Ireland where one of the rare young female filmmakers to get a big boost was Kirsten Sheridan, daughter of Jim. Her 2001 film Disco Pigs is a pretty amazing depiction of coupledom gone awry.

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