WEEK IN WOMEN: AFI Gets NEH Grant for Gender Parity Study – Brandy McDonnell reports

April 13, 2019April 13, 2019 Brandy McDonnell 0 Comments

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The American Film Institute has received a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study gender parity in the history of American film.

The study, which takes its name from director Lloyd Bacon’s lost 1928 film Women They Talk About, will explore how gender parity was nearly achieved in the early decades of film — an era during which more women held positions of power than at any other time in the U.S. motion picture industry. Continue reading on THE FEMALE GAZE

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Brandy McDonnell

Brandy McDonnell writes features and reviews movies, music, events and the arts for The Oklahoman, Oklahoma's statewide newspaper, and NewsOK.com, the state's largest news Web site. Raised on a farm near Lindsay, Okla., she started her journalism career in seventh grade, when she was elected reporter for her school's 4-H Club. Taking her duties seriously, she began submitting stories to The Lindsay News, and worked for the local weekly through high school. She attended Oklahoma State University, where she worked for The Daily O'Collegian and earned her journalism degree with honors. She worked for three years at small Oklahoma dailies The Edmond Sun and Shawnee News-Star. In 2002, she joined The Oklahoman as a features reporter, writing about movies, the arts, events, families and nonprofits. She moved to The Oklahoman's entertainment desk in 2007. In 2004, she won a prestigious Journalism Fellowship in Child & Family Policy from the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Along with her membership in AWFJ, she also is a founding member of the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle. Brandy writes The Week In Women blog for AWFJ.org.