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University of Illinois Press Movie Workers: The Women Who Made British Cinema (Women’s Media History Now!)

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Rolling the credits on six decades of women in film 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, Movie Workers is a first-of-its-kind examination of the unsung women whose invisible work brought British filmmaking to the screen. Review "Melanie Bell describes Movie Workers as a history that aims to 'disrupt the present' and she has done just that. Marshalling a rich array of evidence from trade union records, oral histories, and contemporaneous sources, Bell uncovers the essential work that women have performed at all levels of the British film industry for decades--work rendered invisible in traditional histories which have for too long glorified film directors as solitary creative geniuses and stubbornly refused to recognize feminized labor as labor."--Shelley Stamp, author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood "A revelatory study. This book not only challenges traditional film history by demanding gender sensitive attention to roles in film production normally ignored, but it changes conceptions of creativity to embrace a more complex understanding of the collaborative processes involved as opposed to the established conception of the director's authorial vision."--Christine Gledhill, co-editor of Doing Women's Film History: Reframing Cinemas, Past and Future About the Author Melanie Bell is an associate professor of film and media at the University of Leeds. Her books include Julie Christie: Stardom and Cultural Production and Femininity in Frame: Women and 1950s British Popular Cinema.

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Brand: University of Illinois Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0252043871
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Film > History & Criticism
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 06 July 2021
Listed Since: 27 August 2020

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