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Off to the pictures : cinema-going, women's writing and movie culture in interwar Britain
- Title
- Off to the pictures : cinema-going, women's writing and movie culture in interwar Britain / Lisa Stead.
- Author
- Stead, Lisa
- Publication
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Description
- 224 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- This volume offers an exploration of interwar women's fictions and their complex intersections with cinema. Interrogating a range of writings, from newspapers and magazines to middlebrow and modernist fictions, the book takes the reader through the diverse print and storytelling media that women constructed around interwar film-going, arguing that literary forms came to constitute an intermedial gendered cinema culture at this time. Using detailed case studies, this book draws upon new archival research, industrial analysis and close textual readings to consider cinema's place in the fictions and critical writings of major literary figures such as Winifred Holtby, Stella Gibbons, Elizabeth Bowen, Jean Rhys, Elinor Glyn, C. A. Lejeune and Iris Barry. Through the lens of feminist film historiography, Off to the Pictures presents a bold new view of interwar cinema culture, read through the creative reflections of the women who experienced it.
- Subjects
- Motion pictures in literature
- English prose literature > Women authors > 20th century > History and criticism
- Women > Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century
- Feminism and motion pictures > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Motion pictures > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Motion pictures and women > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-216) and index.
- Call Number
- MFL 16-5005
- ISBN
- 9780748694884
- 0748694889
- OCLC
- 936009444
- Author
- Stead, Lisa, author.
- Title
- Off to the pictures : cinema-going, women's writing and movie culture in interwar Britain / Lisa Stead.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-216) and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 16-5005