| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 272 pages) : illustrations. |
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| Series |
Women and film history international |
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Women and film history international.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-257) and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 09, 2021). |
| Contents |
Women's work in film production : concepts, materials, and methods -- Organizing work : gender and the film trade union -- The 1930s : modernizing production -- The 1940s : wartime opportunities -- The 1950s : rebuilding Britain -- The 1960s : the new pioneers -- The 1970s and 1980s : working with feminism -- Legacies and new beginnings. |
| Subject |
Motion picture industry -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion pictures and women -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Sex role -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Women -- Employment -- Great Britain.
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PERFORMING ARTS / General.
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Motion picture industry. (OCoLC)fst01027150
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Motion pictures and women. (OCoLC)fst01027425
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Sex role. (OCoLC)fst01114598
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Women -- Employment.
(OCoLC)fst01176715
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bell, Melanie. Movie workers Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021. 9780252043871 (DLC) 2020053100 |
| ISBN |
9780252052774 electronic book |
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0252052773 electronic book |
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