Greta Gerwig

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by Suzanne Ferriss

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Greta Gerwig

Keywords

Greta Gerwig, director, woman

Publishing date

2026 (March 31, 2026)

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Collection

Visionaries: The Work of Women Filmmakers

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 168 pages
5 ½ x 8 ½ inches (14 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-3995-5350-6

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Book Presentation:
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 that resonate with viewers in the present for what they have to say about identity and relationships in contemporary culture, particularly how our lives, especially those of women, are fashioned through clothing, décor and architecture. They feature women who rebel by fashioning independent lives as fabricators―those who shape their worlds rather than being shaped by them. Considered together, Gerwig’s three features form a developing oeuvre tracing the contours of feminist refashioning.

About the Author:
Suzanne Ferriss is an emeritus professor at Nova Southeastern University. Her publications include two volumes on the cultural study of fashion, On Fashion and Footnotes: On Shoes, and two companion volumes on “chick culture”: Chick Lit: The New Woman’s Fiction and Chick Flicks: Contemporary Women at the Movies. In addition to editing The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sofia Coppola, she is the author of The Cinema of Sofia Coppola: Fashion, Culture, Celebrity and the BFI Film Classics volume on Lost in Translation.

Press Reviews:
Ferriss's book will become the benchmark for studies of Gerwig's oeuvre. Written with characteristic clarity and brio, this study is as entertaining to read as it is informative and eloquent. I am certain this book will be indispensible not only to those studying and writing on Gerwig, but also to those working within feminist film and media studies as well. Highly recommended. ― Anna Backman Rogers, Professor of Aesthetics, Culture and Feminist Theory, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

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