Cinematic Howling: Women’s Films, Women’s Film Theories (review)

2009 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 390-391
Author(s):  
Kay Armatage
Keyword(s):  
Women's Film ◽  
Women's Films

scholarly journals Researching around our subjects

2021 ◽  
pp. 166-188
Author(s):  
Frances C. Galt
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Television History ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Concentric Circles ◽  
Women's Film ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Union Activism

This article explores the opportunities and obstacles of researching women’s trade union activism in the British film and television industries between 1933 and 2017. The surviving material on women’s union participation is incomplete and fragmented, and so my research has combined an examination of archival material—the union’s journal and the meeting minutes, correspondence and ephemera of three iterations of its equality committee—with new and existing oral history interviews. Sherry J. Katz has termed this methodological approach “researching around our subjects”, which involves “working outward in concentric circles of related sources” to reconstruct women’s experiences (90). While “researching around my subjects” was a challenging and time-consuming process, it was also a rewarding one, producing important insights into union activism as it relates to gender and breaking new ground in both women’s labour and women’s film and television history. This article concludes with a case study on the appointment of Sarah Benton as researcher for the ACTT’s Patterns report in 1973, revealing the benefits of this methodological approach in reconstructing events which have been effectively erased from the official record.

Love, Suspense, Sex, and Violence: Men’s and Women’s Film Predilections, Exposure to Sexually Violent Media, and their Relationship to Rape Myth Acceptance

Sex Roles ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 55 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 311-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara M. Emmers-Sommer ◽  
Perry Pauley ◽  
Alesia Hanzal ◽  
Laura Triplett
Keyword(s):  
Rape Myth Acceptance ◽  
Rape Myth ◽  
Violent Media ◽  
Sexually Violent ◽  
Women's Film ◽  
Myth Acceptance

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Frances C. Galt
Keyword(s):  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Television History ◽  
Trade Union Movement ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Women's Film ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter establishes the original contribution of the book by addressing why this research is necessary, where it sits within the existing literature and how this research has been conducted. Firstly, this chapter illustrates the timeliness of the book with reference to women’s renewed activism against sexual harassment and gender discrimination in the film and television industries and in the trade union movement. Secondly, this chapter explains the rationale for its focus and establishes the three central themes which underpin the book’s analysis of the relationship between women and trade unions in the British film and television industries: the operation of a gendered union structure, women’s union activism, and the relationship between class and gender in the labour movement. Thirdly, this chapter surveys existing literature in the fields of Women’s Labour History, Industrial Relations Scholarship and Women’s Film and Television History. Fourthly, this chapter details the methodological approach of this project, which combines archival research with oral history. Finally, this chapter outlines the structure of the book.

Feminist Auteurs: Reading Women’s Films (review)

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 234-237
Author(s):  
Lisa Botshon
Keyword(s):  
Women's Films

Doing women’s film history: reframing cinemas, past and future

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 746-748 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager
Keyword(s):  
Film History ◽  
Women's Film

Reconsidering the Work of Claire Johnston

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 244-273
Author(s):  
Rachel Fabian
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Media Production ◽  
Student Writing ◽  
Theoretical Inquiry ◽  
Group A ◽  
Feminist Film ◽  
Production Practices ◽  
Women's Film ◽  
Film Group

This essay examines the work of British “cinefeminist” Claire Johnston, whose activism, writings, and filmmaking during the 1970s and 1980s merged innovative feminist media production practices with new modes of theoretical inquiry. Johnston's 1973 essay “Women's Cinema as Counter-Cinema” was crucial to feminist film theory's development, yet the essay's canonization has reduced her thinking to a handful of theoretical concerns. To grasp the full political promise of Johnston's work, this article reconsiders the essay in three related contexts, examining: the historical circumstances in which it was published and the feminist debates it participated in; its ties to Johnston's less noted writings; and its relation to Johnston's filmmaking while she was a member of the London Women's Film Group, a feminist filmmaking collective committed to building coalitions among women media workers. This article won the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Student Writing Prize in 2016.

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