WOMEN OF MYSTERY : THREE WRITERS WHO FOREVER CHANGED DETECTIVE FICTION : DVD REVIEW
The three women writers (some of us prefer to just be called writers) are Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton, and Marcia Fuller. The focus on this film was how the woman detective characters that these three writers have individually invented has proven to be a role model for women readers in real life. For instance, Sara Paretsky tells of a letter she got from a Japanese fan, a woman engineer still dealing with daily sexual harassment on the job.
The film also focused on testimonials from the authors on how well they "know" their invented character and how at times the fact that the character is different than they are, even nothing like them, can become an issue of separation, as if that character were a real person.
I wonder, does a writer sometimes feel obligated to design a character who is inauthentic as a result of feeling the pressure to be, say, nice, in their own real life?
Maybe because I've heard authors speak of their chaacters and have invented some of my own, I know that we must "get into the head" of our character. We must know them as we know ourselves. We ask what would she (not us) do in any situation?
NEW DAY FILMS is the source of this older DVD.
