Movie workers : the women who made British cinema /
Bell, Melanie,
Movie workers : the women who made British cinema / Melanie Bell. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
After the advent of sound, women in the British film industry formed an essential corps of below-the-line workers, labouring 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 labour 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.
9780252052774 (ebook) : No price
Motion picture industry--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Motion pictures and women--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Sex role--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Women--Employment--Great Britain.
791.430820941
Movie workers : the women who made British cinema / Melanie Bell. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
After the advent of sound, women in the British film industry formed an essential corps of below-the-line workers, labouring 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 labour 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.
9780252052774 (ebook) : No price
Motion picture industry--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Motion pictures and women--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Sex role--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Women--Employment--Great Britain.
791.430820941