Gene Walz mentions: "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." This is a good point. Gale Anne Hurd would be an important producer/"auteur" in this regard. Penelope Spheeris is a particularly interesting case--someone who has gone from documenting the heavy metal underground music scene to doing film remakes or film versions of TV shows! Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN) ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.sa.ua.edu/screensite