British Women Amateur Filmmakers

National Memories and Global Identities

AvAnnamaria Motrescu-Mayes,Heather Norris Nicholson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

The study of amateur filmmaking and media history is a rapidly-growing specialist field, and this ground-breaking book is the first to address the subject in the context of British women’s amateur practice. Using an interdisciplinary framework that draws upon social and visual anthropology, imperial and postcolonial studies, and British and Commonwealth history, the book explores how women used the evolving technologies of the moving image to write visual narratives about their lives and times. Locating women’s recreational visual practice within a century of profound societal, technological and ideological change, British Women Amateur Filmmakers discloses how women negotiated aspects of their changing lifestyles, attitudes and opportunities through first-person visual narratives about themselves and the world around them.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-10-19
Mått:156 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt:564 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474420730

Utforska kategorier

Referensverk och tvärvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes is a visiting Lecturer in digital and new media anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Heather Norris Nicholson holds honorary research positions at the University of Huddersfield and also at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Recensioner i media

The strength of the project is the valuable groundwork it lays for this new field of scholarship [women filmmakers study], so that we can continue to tackle questions about amateur filmmaking and women’s agency... In researching and narrating these disregarded histories, the book shows how new forms of archival research can lead to the widening of the canon and a broader understanding of the practices and aesthetics of female filmmakers.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations List of Sources Acknowledgement Foreword 1. Amateur women filmmakers as producers of cultural meaning 2. Webs of production and practice 3. Resisting colonial gendering while domesticating the Empire 4. Cameras not handbags: the essential accessory 5. Through women’s lens: imperial and postcolonial class and gender hierarchies 6. Teachers: users of cine-cameras 7. British women’s media narratives of gender and collective memory 8. Reimagining boundaries: amateur women's animations AfterwordNotes on the Contributors Selected Bibliography Index