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OverviewWinner of the Theatre Library Association’s Richard Wall Memorial Award Special Jury Prize for an exemplary work in the field of recorded performance 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Melanie BellPublisher: University of Illinois Press Imprint: University of Illinois Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm ISBN: 9780252085864ISBN 10: 0252085868 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 06 July 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsEye-opening and disruptive, this counter-narrative (spliced together from oral histories, trade union records, and more) is a trove of trivia and untold truths. Highlighting the often-unseen but important accomplishments of women in film, this is a comprehensive, necessary addition to any cinephile's collection. --Library Journal (starred review) A revelatory study. This book not only challenges traditional film history by demanding gender sensitive attention to roles in film production normally ignored, but it changes conceptions of creativity to embrace a more complex understanding of the collaborative processes involved as opposed to the established conception of the director's authorial vision. --Christine Gledhill, co-editor of Doing Women's Film History: Reframing Cinemas, Past and Future Melanie Bell describes Movie Workers as a history that aims to 'disrupt the present' and she has done just that. Marshalling a rich array of evidence from trade union records, oral histories, and contemporaneous sources, Bell uncovers the essential work that women have performed at all levels of the British film industry for decades-work rendered invisible in traditional histories which have for too long glorified film directors as solitary creative geniuses and stubbornly refused to recognize feminized labor as labor. --Shelley Stamp, author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood Melanie Bell describes Movie Workers as a history that aims to 'disrupt the present' and she has done just that. Marshalling a rich array of evidence from trade union records, oral histories, and contemporaneous sources, Bell uncovers the essential work that women have performed at all levels of the British film industry for decades-work rendered invisible in traditional histories which have for too long glorified film directors as solitary creative geniuses and stubbornly refused to recognize feminized labor as labor. --Shelley Stamp, author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood A revelatory study. This book not only challenges traditional film history by demanding gender sensitive attention to roles in film production normally ignored, but it changes conceptions of creativity to embrace a more complex understanding of the collaborative processes involved as opposed to the established conception of the director's authorial vision. --Christine Gledhill, co-editor of Doing Women's Film History: Reframing Cinemas, Past and Future A revelatory study. This book not only challenges traditional film history by demanding gender sensitive attention to roles in film production normally ignored, but it changes conceptions of creativity to embrace a more complex understanding of the collaborative processes involved as opposed to the established conception of the director's authorial vision. --Christine Gledhill, co-editor of Doing Women's Film History: Reframing Cinemas, Past and Future Melanie Bell describes Movie Workers as a history that aims to 'disrupt the present' and she has done just that. Marshalling a rich array of evidence from trade union records, oral histories, and contemporaneous sources, Bell uncovers the essential work that women have performed at all levels of the British film industry for decades-work rendered invisible in traditional histories which have for too long glorified film directors as solitary creative geniuses and stubbornly refused to recognize feminized labor as labor. --Shelley Stamp, author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood A revelatory study. This book not only challenges traditional film history by demanding gender sensitive attention to roles in film production normally ignored, but it changes conceptions of creativity to embrace a more complex understanding of the collaborative processes involved as opposed to the established conception of the director's authorial vision. --Christine Gledhill, co-editor of Doing Women's Film History: Reframing Cinemas, Past and Future Author InformationMelanie Bell is a professor of film history in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. Her books include Julie Christie: Stardom and Cultural Production and Femininity in Frame: Women and 1950s British Popular Cinema. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |