Off to the Pictures

Cinemagoing, Women’s Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

AvLisa Stead,University of Exeter) Stead, Lisa (Lecturer in Film Studies

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Examines women's constructions of selfhood through film and literature in interwar Britain'Off to the Pictures: Cinemagoing, Women's Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain' offers a rich new exploration of interwar women's fictions and their complex intersections with cinema. Interrogating a range of writings, from newspapers and magazines to middlebrow and modernist fictions, the book takes the reader through the diverse print and storytelling media that women constructed around interwar film-going, arguing that literary forms came to constitute an intermedial gendered cinema culture at this time.Using detailed case studies, this innovative book draws upon new archival research, industrial analysis and close textual readings to consider cinema's place in the fictions and critical writings of major literary figures such as Winifred Holtby, Stella Gibbons, Elizabeth Bowen, Jean Rhys, Elinor Glyn, C. A. Lejeune and Iris Barry. Through the lens of feminist film historiography, 'Off to the Pictures' presents a bold new view of interwar cinema culture, read through the creative reflections of the women who experienced it.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-02-22
Mått232 x 156 x 13 mm
Vikt360 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor232
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474431910

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IllustrationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter 1: Off to the Pictures: Cinema, Fiction and Interwar CultureChapter 2: Screen Fantasies: Tie-ins and the Short StoryChapter 3: Middlebrow Modernity: Class, Cinemagoing and SelfhoodChapter 4: Wander, Watch, Repeat: Jean Rhys and CinemaChapter 5: Film Talk: C. A. Lejeune and the Female Film CriticChapter 6: Elinor Glyn: Intermedial Romance and Authorial StardomAfterwordBibliographyIndex

'Off to the Pictures presents an alternative way of examining the gendered uses of film and its part in determining the complex and changing roles and identities of women after the First World War. Looking at a range of women’s writings on or for the movies, Stead interrogates written representations of the figure of the female cinema-goer as original or artistic reflections of women who were themselves involved in processes of shaping their identity as cinema-goers and as women working in cinema, journalism or literature. A unique feature of this book is that it considers women both as consumers and producers of film and film culture.'