Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Christine Gledhill

Titel

Foreword

Ist Teil von

• British Women Amateur Filmmakers, 2018, p.xii

Ort / Verlag

Edinburgh University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This volume, exploring the diversity of women’s amateur filmmaking from the cine camera’s early days to the digital and online present, is highly welcome. Not only do its authors, Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes and Heather Norris Nicholson, bring into public view a whole body of little-known and rarely considered films by British women, in addressing the status of the amateur and the nature of their work, they open new channels between women and cinema, enlarging understanding of film as a way of gendered, class and colonial imagining, and offering a new lens through which to investigate the interactions between media use and