I had mixed feelings about this book.

I really enjoyed the more factual and statistical elements,  and did have valuable comments to make on the place of "women's" films in the past and more recently. 

But I struggled with the more personal opinion parts and felt the author could more easily gloss over some of the problematic aspects of these films than I would have liked. Although what is and is not acceptable to society has changed since the 80s, I felt that nostalgia won the day for the author.