TY - BOOK AU - Motrescu-Mayes,Annamaria AU - Gledhill,Christine AU - Norris Nicholson,Heather TI - British Women Amateur Filmmakers: National Memories and Global Identities SN - 9781474420730 U1 - 791.43/30941 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - Amateur films KW - Production and direction KW - Great Britain KW - History and criticism KW - Feminism and motion pictures KW - Women in the motion picture industry KW - Women motion picture producers and directors KW - Film, Media & Cultural Studies KW - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; List of Sources and Abbreviations --; Acknowledgements --; Foreword --; 1. Amateur Women Filmmakers as Producers of Cultural Meaning --; 2. Webs of Production and Practice --; 3. Resisting Colonial Gendering while Domesticating the Empire --; 4. Cameras Not Handbags: The Essential Accessory --; 5. Through Women’s Lens: Imperial and Postcolonial Class and Gender Hierarchies --; 6. Teacher Filmmakers --; 7. British Women’s Media Narratives of Gender and Collective Memory --; 8. Reimagining Boundaries: Amateur Animations --; Afterword --; Selected Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - The first book to address the topic of British women amateur filmmakersBrings 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 literatureAddress key issues of gender and amateur film practice across various social, cultural and racial contextsThe 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474420747?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474420747 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474420747/original ER -