AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, March 12 2010 - MaryAnn Johanson
Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar win doesn’t really count, women go to the movies more than men, and Read the rest of this entry »
MaryAnn Johanson
MaryAnn Johanson is a New York City-based writer whose writings on film, TV, DVD, and pop culture appear in a variety of US alternative weekly newspapers including Salt Lake City Weekly and Charleston City Paper, and in the UK’s Blockbuster Preview. Online, she contributes to Film.com and FlickFilosopher.com. She is the author of The Totally Geeky Guide to The Princess Bride, and is an award-winning screenwriter. Read Johanson's recent articles below. For her Women On Film archive, type "MaryAnn Johanson" in the Search Box (upper right corner of screen).
Articles by MaryAnn Johanson
AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, March 5, 2010 - MaryAnn Johanson
Female directors barely exist, the joke of enlightened sexism and Read the rest of this entry »
AWFJ Women on Film - The Week In Women, February 25, 2010 - MaryAnn Johanson
Imagine if men were all but invisible onscreen; Kathryn Bigelow is a man, baby! and Read the rest of this entry »
AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, February 20, 2010 - MaryAnn Johanson
Why do women pay to see crappy movies? Where is the networking and support for female filmmakers? And Read the rest of this entry »
AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, February 12, 2010 - MaryAnn Johanson
Pop culture misogyny so bad, even men notice it; Hollywood director says out loud that Hollywood actresses are too skinny and Read the rest of this entry »
AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, February 5, 2010 - MaryAnn Johanson
Vanity Fair can recognize sexism and unfair treatment of women in Hollywood as long as it happened 70 years ago… Read the rest of this entry »
AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, January 29, 2010 - MaryAnn Johanson
TV’s still very very bad for women writers; when violence = commitment; a movie about women as people and Read the rest of this entry »
AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, January 22, 2010 - MaryAnn Johanson
The destruction of humanity is not a woman’s fault, dammit; the new trend of behind-every-great-man movies; Precious is not a documentary… Read the rest of this entry »
AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, January 15, 2010 - MaryAnn Johanson
Maybe it’s men who “just aren’t funny”; sexy Star Wars lack imagination; how not to depict girl geeks and Read the rest of this entry »
AWFJ Women On Film - MaryAnn Johanson’s Top Ten of 2009
1. The Hurt Locker
2. District 9
3. The Road
4. The Soloist
5. A Serious Man
6. Bright Star
7. Up
8. Inglourious Basterds
9. Fantastic Mr. Fox
10. The Brothers Bloom