Movie workers : the women who made British cinema / Melanie Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Melanie, author.

Series:

Women & film history international.

Illinois scholarship online.

Women & film history international

Illinois scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Motion picture industry.

Motion pictures and women--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Motion pictures and women.

Sex role--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Sex role.

Women--Employment--Great Britain.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021.

Summary:

After the advent of sound, women in the British film industry formed an essential corps of below-the-line workers, labouring 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 labour 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.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction Women's Work in Film Production: Concepts, Materials, and Methods

1 Organizing Work: Gender and the Film Trade Union

2 The 1930s: Modernizing Production

3 The 1940s: Wartime Opportunities

4 The 1950s: Rebuilding Britain

5 The 1960s: The New Pioneers

6 The 1970s and 1980s: Working with Feminism

Epilogue Legacies and New Beginnings

Appendix A Application Form for Membership in the Association of Cine-Technicians (circa 1930s)

Appendix B ACT Job Levels, 1947

Appendix C Film Technicians: Numbers and Percentage by Gender, Decade, and Production Category

Notes

Select Glossary

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 26, 2021).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780252052774 (electronic book)

9780252052774

0252052773

OCLC:

1259320777