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British Women Amateur Filmmakers
National Memories and Global Identities
by Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes and Heather Norris Nicholson
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Book Presentation:
The first book to address the topic of British women amateur filmmakers
• Brings expertise in interpreting relevant archive visual material specific to a under-researched film genre: amateur cinematic practice
• Combines newly uncovered findings on women’s amateur film and video-related practice with relevant primary and secondary literature
• Address key issues of gender and amateur film practice across various social, cultural and racial contexts
The study of amateur filmmaking and media history is a rapidly-growing specialist field, and this ground-breaking book is the first to address the subject in the context of British women’s amateur practice. Using an interdisciplinary framework that draws upon social and visual anthropology, imperial and postcolonial studies, and British and Commonwealth history, the book explores how women used the evolving technologies of the moving image to write visual narratives about their lives and times. Locating women’s recreational visual practice within a century of profound societal, technological and ideological change, British Women Amateur Filmmakers discloses how women negotiated aspects of their changing lifestyles, attitudes and opportunities through first-person visual narratives about themselves and the world around them.
About the authors:
Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes is a visiting Lecturer in digital and new media anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
Heather Norris Nicholson holds honorary research positions at the University of Huddersfield and also at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Press Reviews:
The strength of the project is the valuable groundwork it lays for this new field of scholarship [women filmmakers study], so that we can continue to tackle questions about amateur filmmaking and women’s agency... In researching and narrating these disregarded histories, the book shows how new forms of archival research can lead to the widening of the canon and a broader understanding of the practices and aesthetics of female filmmakers.– Charlotte Hallahan, LSE Review of Books
British Women Amateur Filmmakers makes an original and incisive contribution to the fields ofBritish film history, women’s film and media history, and twentieth-century British cultural history,and would be of particular interest to scholars and students working in these fields. It explores awealth of the ‘countless women’s stories about every day and other experiences […] captured onamateur footage that have remained largely neglected and forgotten in Britain’s public archivesand private collections’ (10). The authors’ meticulous analysis of these stories calls for filmarchives’ continuing work in recovering and widening access to them, and for the careful attentionof scholars of film and visual culture to such seemingly mundane or ephemeral films as expressionsof women’s changing lives and worlds.– Hollie Price, The Journal of the British Records Association
Packed with keenly researched historical detail and splendidly illustrated, 'British Women Amateur Filmmakers' brings to light the fascinating and hitherto hidden history of women's contribution to amateur film practice.– Annette Kuhn, Emeritus Professor in Film Studies, Queen Mary University of London
See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press
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