Heather Norris Nicholson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1261994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Norris Nicholson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather Norris |
| FAMILY NAME | Nicholson |
| SIGNATURE | NICHOLSON H N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
British Women Amateur Filmmakers
British Women’s Media Narratives of Gender and Collective Memory
This chapter engages with theoretical and historical perspectives on gender, post-colonialism and new media with the aim to trace the visual literacy defined by several examples of British women amateur film and media practice. This literacy appears to inform new understandings of amateur/new media making and to elucidate how gender-driven visual narratives of gender, race and national identities function today within global online networks. It e…
Resisting Colonial Gendering while Domesticating the Empire
This chapter examines how colonial women amateur filmmakers often documented in detail their early and mid-twentieth century overseas travel and settlement experiences, jobs, sports and private and official events. Relying on cross-archival primary sources, it discusses the filmmakers’ simultaneous roles as vectors of colonising credos and commodified subalterns of imperial paternalism. It explores the historical discourse present across several …
Small-Gauge Story-Telling
Every generation creates its own way of sharing stories, and for the recreational cine-users of the twentieth century, evolving motion picture equipment offered novel ways of ‘do-it-yourself’ visual storytelling. Although many cine enthusiasts worked within a broadly realist tradition, for some amateur filmmakers in the very early days, the desire to invent went much further than the crafting of apparently happy memories for later viewing. Just a…
Through the Balkan States
Newly available lightweight cine camera equipment provided affluent British holidaymakers with an innovative travel accessory in the mid 1920s. Travel narratives produced by early camera-touting enthusiasts may be likened to preceding forms of travel experience depicted in art and written form, but important differences occur too. This discussion explores issues of place representation, ethnography and perceptions of regional identities, cultures…
Shooting in Paradise
Following the launch of Kodak's lightweight cine camera in c. 1923, early amateur cine enthusiasts soon featured among the growing numbers of people able to afford overseas visits. As the Mediterranean rapidly regained its pre-war popularity as a travel destination, evidence of its more militarised character and strategic significance recur in the glimpses of veterans and uniformed service personnel, vessels, medals and border securities found in…
At home and abroad with cine enthusiasts
British holiday films of the Mediterranean
Seeing how it was
Home movies provided valuable insights into childhood experiences during much of the twentieth century. Contrasting footage of children in rural and urban setting in Northern England between c.1937 and 1970, viewed through the cinematic gaze of two male amateur film‐makers underpins this discussion of childhood geographies in the past. Issues explored in the paper include the social construction of childhood, power relations and visual representa…
Archives and sources. In amateur hands
In Amateur Hands
Amateur movies are a window upon past geographies and memories. The following discussion identifies some practical and intellectual issues associated with using archival film in the study of historical and geographical change. Mapping the unofficial sources of historical knowledge produces ever-changing versions of events, people and places through time and space. Early amateur film is one way of tapping into people's memories about themselves an…
British holiday films of the Mediterranean
At home and abroad with cine enthusiasts
Through the Balkan States
Newly available lightweight cine camera equipment provided affluent British holidaymakers with an innovative travel accessory in the mid 1920s. Travel narratives produced by early camera-touting enthusiasts may be likened to preceding forms of travel experience depicted in art and written form, but important differences occur too. This discussion explores issues of place representation, ethnography and perceptions of regional identities, cultures…
Seeing how it was
Home movies provided valuable insights into childhood experiences during much of the twentieth century. Contrasting footage of children in rural and urban setting in Northern England between c.1937 and 1970, viewed through the cinematic gaze of two male amateur film‐makers underpins this discussion of childhood geographies in the past. Issues explored in the paper include the social construction of childhood, power relations and visual representa…
Archives and sources. In amateur hands
In Amateur Hands
Amateur movies are a window upon past geographies and memories. The following discussion identifies some practical and intellectual issues associated with using archival film in the study of historical and geographical change. Mapping the unofficial sources of historical knowledge produces ever-changing versions of events, people and places through time and space. Early amateur film is one way of tapping into people's memories about themselves an…
Archives and sources. In amateur hands
In Amateur Hands
Amateur movies are a window upon past geographies and memories. The following discussion identifies some practical and intellectual issues associated with using archival film in the study of historical and geographical change. Mapping the unofficial sources of historical knowledge produces ever-changing versions of events, people and places through time and space. Early amateur film is one way of tapping into people's memories about themselves an…
Seeing how it was
Home movies provided valuable insights into childhood experiences during much of the twentieth century. Contrasting footage of children in rural and urban setting in Northern England between c.1937 and 1970, viewed through the cinematic gaze of two male amateur film‐makers underpins this discussion of childhood geographies in the past. Issues explored in the paper include the social construction of childhood, power relations and visual representa…
British holiday films of the Mediterranean
At home and abroad with cine enthusiasts
Through the Balkan States
Newly available lightweight cine camera equipment provided affluent British holidaymakers with an innovative travel accessory in the mid 1920s. Travel narratives produced by early camera-touting enthusiasts may be likened to preceding forms of travel experience depicted in art and written form, but important differences occur too. This discussion explores issues of place representation, ethnography and perceptions of regional identities, cultures…
Shooting in Paradise
Following the launch of Kodak's lightweight cine camera in c. 1923, early amateur cine enthusiasts soon featured among the growing numbers of people able to afford overseas visits. As the Mediterranean rapidly regained its pre-war popularity as a travel destination, evidence of its more militarised character and strategic significance recur in the glimpses of veterans and uniformed service personnel, vessels, medals and border securities found in…
Small-Gauge Story-Telling
Every generation creates its own way of sharing stories, and for the recreational cine-users of the twentieth century, evolving motion picture equipment offered novel ways of ‘do-it-yourself’ visual storytelling. Although many cine enthusiasts worked within a broadly realist tradition, for some amateur filmmakers in the very early days, the desire to invent went much further than the crafting of apparently happy memories for later viewing. Just a…
British Women Amateur Filmmakers
British Women’s Media Narratives of Gender and Collective Memory
This chapter engages with theoretical and historical perspectives on gender, post-colonialism and new media with the aim to trace the visual literacy defined by several examples of British women amateur film and media practice. This literacy appears to inform new understandings of amateur/new media making and to elucidate how gender-driven visual narratives of gender, race and national identities function today within global online networks. It e…
Resisting Colonial Gendering while Domesticating the Empire
This chapter examines how colonial women amateur filmmakers often documented in detail their early and mid-twentieth century overseas travel and settlement experiences, jobs, sports and private and official events. Relying on cross-archival primary sources, it discusses the filmmakers’ simultaneous roles as vectors of colonising credos and commodified subalterns of imperial paternalism. It explores the historical discourse present across several …
Art (11 works) · Amateur (10 works) · History (9 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Visual arts (9 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Literature (5 works)