British Women Amateur Filmmakers

Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes is a visiting Lecturer in digital and new media anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Heather Norris Nicholson holds honorary research positions at the University of Huddersfield and also at Manchester Metropolitan University.

• List of Illustrations List of Sources Acknowledgement Foreword 1. Amateur women filmmakers as producers of cultural meaning 2. Webs of production and practice 3. Resisting colonial gendering while domesticating the Empire 4. Cameras not handbags: the essential accessory 5. Through women’s lens: imperial and postcolonial class and gender hierarchies 6. Teachers: users of cine-cameras 7. British women’s media narratives of gender and collective memory 8. Reimagining boundaries: amateur women's animations AfterwordNotes on the Contributors Selected Bibliography Index

The strength of the project is the valuable groundwork it lays for this new field of scholarship [women filmmakers study], so that we can continue to tackle questions about amateur filmmaking and women’s agency... In researching and narrating these disregarded histories, the book shows how new forms of archival research can lead to the widening of the canon and a broader understanding of the practices and aesthetics of female filmmakers.