May 13, 2021
Today, film journalist, author and Empire podcast geek queen
Helen O’Hara joins me to dig into her epic new
book, Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film.
We talk about how the research and writing process was effected by
the pandemic, choosing which topics to cover, the forgotten early
female filmmaking pioneers, how the Hayes censorship code led to
better roles for women, diversity in superhero and franchise films,
the ‘Smurfette’ principle and more.