Icons of Cinema: Greta Gerwig

A celebration of the iconic movie director behind Barbie and Little Women.

About the author

Laura Venning is a film critic from London specialising in feminist cinema, queer cinema and folk horror. She has written for BBC Culture, Empire magazine, Little White Lies magazine and the Curzon Journal. She has contributed to critics' surveys such as Sight and Sound's historic Greatest Films of All Time poll in 2022 and has introduced films at the BFI Southbank. She maintains that Greta Gerwig's Little Women is one of the greatest literary adaptations of all time.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Venning
• Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.10.2025
• EAN: 9781800789845
• ISBN: 978-1-80078-984-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 192 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 358 g
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Photography, filmmaking, video filmmaking; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, Biography: arts & entertainment, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Biography: arts and entertainment, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, Film Theory & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director, Film history, theory or criticism, Video photography / videography, Video Photography