About
Headless Women of Hollywood is a single topic blog that highlights a variety of movie posters in which the female character’s face is entirely or partially cropped out of the layout.
Origin
The Tumblr blog[1] was launched by New York City comedian Marcia Belsky on April 16th, 2016. According to the site description, the project aims to “bring attention to the still standard practice of fragmenting, fetishizing and dehumanizing the images of women we see in film, TV, book covers, and advertisement.”
Spread
[work in progress]
External References
[1]Tumblr – Headless Women of Hollywood
[2]Telegraph – Headless Women of Hollywood: New Tumblr reveals film industry sexism
[3]Mashable – ‘Headless Women of Hollywood’ Tumblr reveals disturbing movie poster trend
[4]USA Today – ‘Headless Women of Hollywood’ blog reveals sexism of movie posters
[5]Mic – The ‘Headless Women Project’ Highlights a Huge Problem With Hollywood’s Movie Posters
[6]The Frisky – “The Headless Women Of Hollywood” Is A Brilliant Feminist Tumblr That You Should Be Following
[7]A.V. Club – Read This: Why does Hollywood keep deleting women’s faces from posters?