Movie workers : the women who made British cinema / Melanie Bell.
Series: Women and film history internationalPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]Description: 1 online resource (viii, 272 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780252052774; 0252052773Uniform titles: Project Muse ebook collections. Subject(s): Motion picture industry -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Motion pictures and women -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Sex role -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Women -- Employment -- Great Britain | Great BritainGenre/Form: History.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Movie workersLOC classification: PN1993.5.G7 | B375 2021Online resources: Project Muse Notre Dame Online Access Summary: "After the advent of sound, women in the British film industry formed an essential corps of below-the-line workers, laboring in positions from animation artist to negative cutter to costume designer. Melanie Bell maps the work of these women decade-by-decade, examining their far-ranging economic and creative contributions against the backdrop of the discrimination that constrained their careers. Her use of oral histories and trade union records presents a vivid counter-narrative to film history, one that focuses not only on women in a male-dominated business, but on the innumerable types of physical and emotional labor required to make a motion picture. Bell's feminist analysis looks at women's jobs in film at important historical junctures while situating the work in the context of changing expectations around women and gender roles. Illuminating and astute, this book is a first-of-its-kind examination of the unsung women whose invisible work brought British filmmaking to the screen"-- Provided by publisher.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"After the advent of sound, women in the British film industry formed an essential corps of below-the-line workers, laboring in positions from animation artist to negative cutter to costume designer. Melanie Bell maps the work of these women decade-by-decade, examining their far-ranging economic and creative contributions against the backdrop of the discrimination that constrained their careers. Her use of oral histories and trade union records presents a vivid counter-narrative to film history, one that focuses not only on women in a male-dominated business, but on the innumerable types of physical and emotional labor required to make a motion picture. Bell's feminist analysis looks at women's jobs in film at important historical junctures while situating the work in the context of changing expectations around women and gender roles. Illuminating and astute, this book is a first-of-its-kind examination of the unsung women whose invisible work brought British filmmaking to the screen"-- Provided by publisher.
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