Series: Visionaries: The Work of Women Filmmakers

This is the first book to consider Gerwig as a writer-director. It argues that her three feature films to date, Lady Bird (2017), Little Women (2019) and Barbie (2023), engage with debates about feminism and femininity through cinematic aesthetics. Her films are linked by heightened attention to material culture through costume, production and set design. They meticulously recreate imagined worlds...