#5 - The Studio Era

EPISODE 5 - STUDIO ERA

In this episode of Women Vs Hollywood, Helen O’Hara is joined by Shelley Stamp and Susan Kemp to discuss the Studio Era, which began in the early 1920s and lasted until the end of the 1940s. The studio system was designed to treat film as a factory product, and it had a huge impact on women, people of colour, and LGBTQ+ people in Hollywood. 

You can find our host, Helen O’Hara (she/her), on Twitter @HelenLOHara.

You can also find Helen on The Empire Film Podcast.

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Our Guests This Week Were:

Shelley Stamp (she/her): @StampShelley on Twitter 

Find out more about her work at https://people.ucsc.edu/~stamp/research/Shelley_Stamp/Home.html 

Susan Kemp (she/her): @kempiefilmy on Twitter

Find out more about her work at https://susan-kemp.com/

This week’s recommended films were:

Not Wanted (1949), directed by Ida Lupino (recommended by Shelley Stamp)

The Day I Became A Woman (2000), directed by Marzieh Makhmalbaf; Locked-Up Time (1990), directed by Sibylle Shönemann (recommended by Susan Kemp) 

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Host: Helen O’Hara (she/her)

Producer: Maddy Searle (she/her)

Executive Producers: Kobi Omenaka (he/him) and Ella Watts (she/her)

Artwork: Steve Leard (he/him) 

Music: Jazz Apricot – Joey Pecoraro; Jazz Mango – Joey Pecoraro; Walk Through The Park – TrackTribe; On Hold For You by Kevin MacLeod - Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/6928-on-hold-for-you - License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license; Members Only – Track Tribe; Night on the Town - Track Tribe 

SFX: stefan021 via freesound.org 

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