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Rolling the credits on six decades of women in film 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, Movie Workers is a first-of-its-kind examination of the unsung women whose invisible work brought British filmmaking to the screen.Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press
ISBN-139780252043871
eBay Product ID (ePID)18049034966
Product Key Features
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameMovie Workers: the Women Who Made British Cinema
Publication Year2021
SubjectZoology
TypeTextbook
AuthorMelanie Bell
SeriesWomen & Film History International
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height229 mm
Item Width152 mm
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorMelanie Bell
