Fading Fame

Author and film historian Pam Munter talks to Paula Blair about her book Fading Fame: Women of a Certain Age in Hollywood (Adelaide Books, 2021) and the pressures and erasures women have experienced in the film industry. As well as touching on suicide, dementia and abusive behaviours in the discussion, Pam has some encouraging advice and positive outlooks for the future in Hollywood. Find out more about Pam and her books at https://pammunter.com Recorded using Zoom on 20 May 2021. Edited by Paula Blair with Audacity and Kdenlive. The music is ‘commonGround’ by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/58703 See the caption-enabled video at https://youtu.be/1EfY8jbFjlw Automated transcript. Find out more about the podcast and sign up to our mailing list at https://audiovisualcultures.wordpress.com/ For early releases and bonus content see https://www.patreon.com/avcultures Please leave us a tip at https://supporter.acast.com/audiovisual-cultures-podcast And if you enjoyed this, please give a good rating in your app! Get bonus content on Patreon Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/avcultures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.