Liberating Hollywood by Maya Montañez Smukler was mentioned in The New Yorker in a June 19, 2019 piece about Juleen Compton.
“Compton, born in 1933, was a trained and experienced actress with little career success to show for it. She became active in New York real estate, became wealthy, founded a theatre company, and self-financed these two movies. (Maya Montañez Smukler’s essential new book, “Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors & the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema,” from Rutgers University Press, is a crucial source of information about Compton.) Dividing her time between New York and Europe, Compton made her first film, “Stranded,” in Europe—mainly in Greece, a bit in France—and, in the process, caught the aesthetic currents of the time, which carried her to rarefied artistic heights.”
Read the full article here: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/juleen-compton-a-director-and-actor-whose-career-was-tragically-overlooked