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.

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.

scholarly journals From the ghetto to the Gulag, from the ghetto to Israel: Soviet collaboration trials against the Shargorod ghetto’s Jewish Council

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Occupied Territories ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Mitigating Circumstances

Beginning in 1944, Soviet authorities arrested former Jewish Council members of different ghettos and put them on trial for collaboration with the Axis powers. This case study examines the 1944 trials of Meir Teich and Isaak Sherf, two leading figures of the Shargorod ghetto’s Jewish administration. Drawing on trial documents, oral history interviews and memoirs, this article focuses on two aspects: how Soviet courts selectively accepted support for the partisans as mitigating circumstances, and how survivor networks among the witnesses influenced the trials. These aspects are discussed in the context of the (re-)Sovietization of formerly occupied territories, in this case Transnistria, the Romanian occupation zone.

Solar Sacrifice: How an Arizona Church Lost Money by Going Solar—and Solutions for When Energy Incentives Fail to Serve the Needs of Nonprofits

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Krantz
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Solar Photovoltaic ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Photovoltaic Panels ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Oral History Interviews

By policy design, consumers are supposed to save money when they invest in solar energy. This paper presents a case study of what happens when a church goes solar and the finances go wrong. Following the installation of solar-photovoltaic panels, the Arizona church—in the Valley of the Sun, among the sunniest places in the country—decreased its energy consumption, but its electric bills went up. Through oral-history interviews of key stakeholders, the author investigates what happened, and what could be done to prevent other religious institutions and nonprofits from experiencing the church’s fate.

scholarly journals Good Nuclear Neighbours: the British electricity industry and the communication of nuclear power to the public, 1950s–1980s

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (03) ◽  
pp. A09
Author(s):  
Thomas Lean ◽  
Sally Horrocks
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Nuclear Industry ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The Public ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Oral History Interviews

Between the 1950s and the 1980s the British nuclear industry engaged with ordinary people in a wide range of ways. These included articles in the print media, exhibitions and educational resources as well as through open days, developing nature reserves and building relations with the local communities around nuclear sites. This paper draws on recently collected oral history interviews and archival material to consider what was one of the largest and best resourced efforts to communicate science to the British public between the 1950s and the 1980s.

scholarly journals Doing women’s film & television history

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-11
Author(s):  
Sarah Arnold ◽  
Anne O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Women's Work ◽  
Women's Images ◽  
Television History ◽  
The Public ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Sex And Sexuality ◽  
Women's Film ◽  
Irish Film ◽  
The Many

The scholarship collected in this issue of Alphaville represents a selection of the research that was to be presented at the 2020 Doing Women’s Film & Television History conference, which was one of the many events cancelled as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic itself greatly impeded academic life and our capacity to carry out and share research among colleagues, students and the public. Covid-19 was even more problematic for women, who shouldered a disproportionate care burden throughout the pandemic. Therefore, we are particularly delighted to be able to present an issue that addresses a number of topics and themes related to the study of women in film and television, including, but not limited to, the production and use of archival collections for the study of women’s film and television histories; the foregrounding of women in Irish film and television histories; women’s productions and representation in films of the Middle East; representations of sex and sexuality in television drama; and women’s work and labour in film and television. The breadth of the themes covered here is indicative of the many ways in which scholars seek to produce, describe and uncover the histories and practices of women in these media. They suggest opportunities for drawing attention to women’s work, whether that is labouring in the film and television industries or the work that women’s images are put to do on screen. Collectively, the articles contained in this issue point to a multitude of opportunities for doing and producing women’s film and television histories, either as they occurred in the past or as they materialise in the present. They offer correctives to absences and marginalisation in production histories, in archiving or preservation, and in representation.

scholarly journals Talking About Pen Sao in the 1950s-60s: An Exploration Through Discussion on A History of Design and Manners

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Juthamas Tangsantikul
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Thai Women ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Design ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Oral History Interviews

This paper presents a case study on the role objects played in the construction of Thai women as social subjects in the period of American Era and Development. Based on the analysis of popular Thai etiquette manual Kritsana son nong: Naenam marayat thi ngam haeng araya samai, I conducted oral history interviews with women growing up in the period. The conversation brought to light the term pen sao and illustrated that while certain objects and practices were portrayed generally as signs of modernity and civilisation, they could also be perceived as suspicious when being viewed as signs of gender differences.

Out of the Margins of Feminist Filmmaking: Vibeke Løkkeberg, Norway, and the Film Cultures of 1970s West Berlin

2019 ◽  
pp. 85-93
Author(s):  
Ingrid S. Holtar
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Women Filmmakers ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
National Cinema ◽  
American Women ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
West Berlin ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women's Film

This chapter addresses how 1970s films by Norwegian women filmmakers form an unexplored history of cinematic and feminist “elsewheres,” through their many international connections. In particular, the films by Vibekke Løkkeberg were part of the international women’s film festival circuit at the time. Foregrounding her Women in media (1974), shot while the director was participating at the First International Women’s Film Seminar in West Berlin in 1973, the chapter emphasizes connections to women’s filmmaking in the New German Cinema movement. Women in media is comprised of interviews with French, Italian, British and American women working in film and television who discuss the difficulties of gaining access to production. As a case study, Løkkeberg’s film provides an interesting document about the fight for equality in media in Western Europe, and contextualizing connections between a peripheral feminist national cinema (such as that of Norway at the time), and an emerging international feminist network.

Doing women’s film and television history: the Women’s Film and Television History Network UK/Ireland

Screen ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 483-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Gledhill ◽  
Rona Murray ◽  
Emma Sandon
Keyword(s):  
Television History ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Women's Film

Colour and light: Colour theory and mechanization in Sunday in the Park with George’s Chromolume

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Rubel
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Production Decisions ◽  
Stephen Sondheim ◽  
Theatrical Design ◽  
Colour Theory ◽  
Oral History Interviews

This article explores how Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday in the Park with George conveys Seurat’s scientific influences, how the show’s Chromolume engages with Seurat and his modernist legacy, and how the 1984 and 2017 Chromolume designs reflect Seurat’s work and legacy. Using original oral history interviews, this article compares the 1984 and 2017 Broadway Chromolume designs to explore how production decisions inform the show’s engagement with pointillism, Seurat and colour theory. By analysing Sunday, this article sets out to provide a case study highlighting how science and technology inform and influence the book, music and theatrical design of a major American musical.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Robert Garner ◽  
Yewande Okuleye
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Oxford Group

The introduction sets the scene for the book by sketching out the theoretical framework to be used to analyze the Oxford Group. The study of the Oxford Group serves as a case study of creative endeavor. How do we explain the emergence of important work and the development of new ideas, and how important is the creative community within which these ideas emerge? Explaining the theory building that accompanied the ethnographic research, centering on a set of oral history interviews with the participants, is important not only as a way of making sense of the Oxford Group but also as a device to facilitate dialogue across fields and methods by providing a trans-situational language. The theoretical framework derives both from ethnographic observation—and in that sense is engaged with grounded theory—and from the extension and refinement of preexisting theoretical formulations. This includes an engagement with the literature on group dynamics, including most notably collaborative circles as well as social network theory and psychogeography.

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