Emma Sandon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1247895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Sandon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Sandon |
| SIGNATURE | SANDON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tom Rice, Films for the Colonies
Doing women’s film and television history
The Women’s Film and Television History Network UK/Ireland (WFTHN) has grown substantially over the last twelve years, establishing itself within academic scholarship and a wider public context, and connecting those interested in learning about or researching the role of women in film and television. This has not been a linear process but one of organic growth. Key to the Network’s success have been the various activities promoted by its members.…
Engineering Difference
The experiences of women engineers working in the BBC Television Service at Alexandra Palace, London, during the 1940s and 1950s, give insights into gender discrimination in broadcasting. These women first joined as radio engineers when the BBC was recruiting women during World War II, then transferred to television between 1946 and 1947. In interviews recorded in the 1990s, they talk about incidents of bullying and exclusion by men on crews who …
Conversion, Salvation and the ‘Civilising Mission’
Emma Sandon explores documentaries produced by English and Scottish Christian missions in India in order to highlight similarities and differences in the definition of a ‘civilising mission’ adopted by these missions. While, for example, some focused on means of reaching salvation, others believed in the use of education to both bring about social development and instil Christian values. Sandon also discusses specific previously under-researched …
Connections—Movements—Treasures
Collaboration has been key to a project to explore and build the potential of the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive (JGPACA) as a publicly available and sustainable resource. Creativeworks London funding schemes allowed for a productive partnership between June Givanni, independent curator, and Emma Sandon, academic at Birkbeck who then extended the project through two further creative collaborations with the University of the Arts, London.…
Changing the World
Sean Graham was born Hans Friedrich Eisler in 1920 in Germany. His parents were from well-established Jewish families. His mother died soon after he was born and he was brought up by his maternal aunt and uncle in Hamburg. The family left Germany with the rise of anti-Semitism, bringing Sean and his sister to England. He was educated at Aldenham and Bryanston public schools and studied law at Cambridge, although he aspired to be a poet and prefer…
African Mirror
African Mirror, the South African-produced and world's longest running commercial newsreel, was a regular item in cinema programmes and on other exhibition circuits in South Africa from its inception in 1913. The importance of cinema newsreel has been recognised for its role as propaganda during wartime and its presence in everyday life, reaching wide audiences with representations of national and public events. The digitisation of Movietone, Pat…
Cinema and Highlife in the Gold Coast
The Boy Kumasenu (Sean Graham, Gold Coast, 1952) produced by the Gold Coast Film Unit during the 1950s, before independence in Ghana, had a public impact and success with local Ghanaian audiences that other colonial films never achieved. About a boy, Kumasenu, who moves from a rural village to the city of Accra, the film attempts to represent an African experience of modern life, using a local cast. This article explores the film’s popular recept…
Issues in Contemporary Documentary
Issues in Contemporary Documentary JANE CHAPMAN Cambridge, Polity Press, 2009 vii+210 pp., illus., notes, filmography, bibliography, index, £55.00 (cloth), £17.99 (paper) This book is a welcome add
Women, Empire, and British Cinema History
Women, Empire, and British Cinema History Emma Sandon (bio) The notion of the transnational has challenged the national focus of cinema histories and has shifted the way we conceive of contemporary film and cinema industries and cultures.1 To what extent, however, is it pertinent to our understanding of the contribution of women to British cinema history? Colonial historians and postcolonial critics have long alerted us to the importance of empir…
Projecting Empire
Projecting Empire: Imperialism and Popular Cinema James Chapman and Nicholas J. Cull London, I. B. Tauris, 2009 244 pp. ISBN: 978-1-84511-940-9 (£15.99 paperback) This book reflects the renewed int
Doing women’s film and television history
The Women’s Film and Television History Network UK/Ireland (WFTHN) has grown substantially over the last twelve years, establishing itself within academic scholarship and a wider public context, and connecting those interested in learning about or researching the role of women in film and television. This has not been a linear process but one of organic growth. Key to the Network’s success have been the various activities promoted by its members.…
African Mirror
African Mirror, the South African-produced and world's longest running commercial newsreel, was a regular item in cinema programmes and on other exhibition circuits in South Africa from its inception in 1913. The importance of cinema newsreel has been recognised for its role as propaganda during wartime and its presence in everyday life, reaching wide audiences with representations of national and public events. The digitisation of Movietone, Pat…
Projecting Empire
Projecting Empire: Imperialism and Popular Cinema James Chapman and Nicholas J. Cull London, I. B. Tauris, 2009 244 pp. ISBN: 978-1-84511-940-9 (£15.99 paperback) This book reflects the renewed int
Women, Empire, and British Cinema History
Women, Empire, and British Cinema History Emma Sandon (bio) The notion of the transnational has challenged the national focus of cinema histories and has shifted the way we conceive of contemporary film and cinema industries and cultures.1 To what extent, however, is it pertinent to our understanding of the contribution of women to British cinema history? Colonial historians and postcolonial critics have long alerted us to the importance of empir…
Projecting Empire
Projecting Empire: Imperialism and Popular Cinema James Chapman and Nicholas J. Cull London, I. B. Tauris, 2009 244 pp. ISBN: 978-1-84511-940-9 (£15.99 paperback) This book reflects the renewed int
Issues in Contemporary Documentary
Issues in Contemporary Documentary JANE CHAPMAN Cambridge, Polity Press, 2009 vii+210 pp., illus., notes, filmography, bibliography, index, £55.00 (cloth), £17.99 (paper) This book is a welcome add
Changing the World
Sean Graham was born Hans Friedrich Eisler in 1920 in Germany. His parents were from well-established Jewish families. His mother died soon after he was born and he was brought up by his maternal aunt and uncle in Hamburg. The family left Germany with the rise of anti-Semitism, bringing Sean and his sister to England. He was educated at Aldenham and Bryanston public schools and studied law at Cambridge, although he aspired to be a poet and prefer…
African Mirror
African Mirror, the South African-produced and world's longest running commercial newsreel, was a regular item in cinema programmes and on other exhibition circuits in South Africa from its inception in 1913. The importance of cinema newsreel has been recognised for its role as propaganda during wartime and its presence in everyday life, reaching wide audiences with representations of national and public events. The digitisation of Movietone, Pat…
Cinema and Highlife in the Gold Coast
The Boy Kumasenu (Sean Graham, Gold Coast, 1952) produced by the Gold Coast Film Unit during the 1950s, before independence in Ghana, had a public impact and success with local Ghanaian audiences that other colonial films never achieved. About a boy, Kumasenu, who moves from a rural village to the city of Accra, the film attempts to represent an African experience of modern life, using a local cast. This article explores the film’s popular recept…
Conversion, Salvation and the ‘Civilising Mission’
Emma Sandon explores documentaries produced by English and Scottish Christian missions in India in order to highlight similarities and differences in the definition of a ‘civilising mission’ adopted by these missions. While, for example, some focused on means of reaching salvation, others believed in the use of education to both bring about social development and instil Christian values. Sandon also discusses specific previously under-researched …
Connections—Movements—Treasures
Collaboration has been key to a project to explore and build the potential of the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive (JGPACA) as a publicly available and sustainable resource. Creativeworks London funding schemes allowed for a productive partnership between June Givanni, independent curator, and Emma Sandon, academic at Birkbeck who then extended the project through two further creative collaborations with the University of the Arts, London.…
Engineering Difference
The experiences of women engineers working in the BBC Television Service at Alexandra Palace, London, during the 1940s and 1950s, give insights into gender discrimination in broadcasting. These women first joined as radio engineers when the BBC was recruiting women during World War II, then transferred to television between 1946 and 1947. In interviews recorded in the 1990s, they talk about incidents of bullying and exclusion by men on crews who …
Doing women’s film and television history
The Women’s Film and Television History Network UK/Ireland (WFTHN) has grown substantially over the last twelve years, establishing itself within academic scholarship and a wider public context, and connecting those interested in learning about or researching the role of women in film and television. This has not been a linear process but one of organic growth. Key to the Network’s success have been the various activities promoted by its members.…
Tom Rice, Films for the Colonies
History (8 works) · Movie theater (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · African history and culture studies (7 works) · Art (7 works) · Art history (7 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (5 works)