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Movie workers : the women who made British cinema
- Title
- Movie workers : the women who made British cinema / Melanie Bell.
- Author
- Bell, Melanie
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
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- Description
- viii, 272 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Women and film history international
- Uniform Title
- Women and film history international.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Women in the motion picture industry > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- 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
- Women in the motion picture industry
- Motion picture industry
- Motion pictures and women
- Sex role
- Women > Employment
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- MFL 22-425
- ISBN
- 9780252043871
- 0252043871
- 9780252085864
- 0252085868
- LCCN
- 2020053100
- OCLC
- 1196242457
- Author
- Bell, Melanie, author.
- Title
- Movie workers : the women who made British cinema / Melanie Bell.
- Publisher
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Women and film history internationalWomen and film history international.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- Online version: Bell, Melanie, 1967- Movie workers Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021. 9780252052774 (DLC) 2020053101
- Research Call Number
- MFL 22-425