To give your students a better perspective on women in American film, you should probably move past the romantic auteurist notion of the film's director to a more 90s take on the industry--women producers and studio heads. A good example of this would be Lindsay Doran, the producer of both Sense and Sensibility and Sabrina--both films directed by so-called "auteurs" but both the product of Lindsay's careful and thorough shepherding. They are HER films as much as and probably MORE than they are Lumet's and Ang Lee's (read about her friendship with S&S's writer/actor--which leads me to recommend another useful area of investigation: writers like Callie Khouri and actors like Susan Sarandon). Lindsay did S&S and Sabrina with Paramount but is now the head of United Artists. For more info, see the April(?) edition of Vanity Fair magazine for a pictorial on women with power in the new Hollywood. Gene Walz University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba (downstream from Fargo and Grand Forks!!) ---- To sign off SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]