Lisa Stead
Biographic Data
| ID | 1626445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Stead |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Stead |
| SIGNATURE | STEAD L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3213-5474 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Forget it's between two women
This article explores the gendered authorial negotiations at work in adaptations of Virginia Woolf's works and celebrity image in screen media, focusing on a case study of Vita and Virginia (2018) directed by British filmmaker Chanya Button.The article discusses Button's film's textual and promotional strategies, considering how it adapts both Eileen Atkins' 1995 play of the same name and original historical correspondence between Woolf and the w…
There's more to middle age than a saggy belly
This article explores the changing star image of Kate Winslet as she enters middle age. It interrogates the media reception of her recent work and off-screen image, considering how discourses around women's agency, visibility, and opportunity in the wake of #MeToo and #TimesUp have impacted this reception specifically in relation to age. Taking Winslet's work in the HBO series Mare of Easttown and the independent film Ammonite as case studies, th…
Llewella Chapman, Fashioning James Bond
Can people on low incomes access affordable housing loans in urban Africa and Asia? Examples of innovative housing finance models from Reall’s global network
While delivering decent, affordable housing at scale is essential to global sustainable development, one formidable blockage is a lack of accessible housing finance for end users. People on low incomes have been perceived by lenders as high risk. They are excluded from financial systems and are forced to self-build using informal credit at exorbitant rates. This article engages with this problem, discussing practical examples and potential ways f…
Archiving star labour
This article seeks to complicate dominant narratives surrounding the star image of stage and screen star Vivien Leigh by interrogating how the material traces of her working life are retained within her dispersed archives. Leigh’s archives document both the development of her stage and screencraft and her alternative off-screen ‘roles’ in business, philanthropy and activism throughout her transatlantic career, spanning the 1930s to the 1960s. By …
Bristol Deaf Memories
The deaf community in the UK has undergone major changes in recent years, which has uprooted it from its traditional foundations, the deaf club and deaf residential school. This article examines the effect of the closure of the deaf club in Bristol, a city in the South West of England, which resulted in the loss of an important community place and spaces for deaf people in the city. Focusing on a community event celebrating Bristol’s deaf heritag…
Elinor Glyn's British Talkies
Existing accounts of Elinor Glyn's career have emphasized her substantial impact on early Hollywood. In contrast, relatively little attention has been paid to her less successful efforts to break into the UK film industry in the early sound period. This article addresses this underexplored period, focusing on Glyn's use of sound in her two 1930 British films, Knowing Men and The Price of Things. The article argues that Glyn's British production p…
The Boundaries of the Literary Archive
This volume offers new and challenging interdisciplinary approaches to the use and study of Literary Archives. Interrogating Literary and archival methodology and foregrounding new forms of textual scholarship, the collection includes essays from both academics and archivists to address the full complexity of the study of modern Literary Archives.The authors examine the increasing prominence of Archives and their importance to the interdisciplina…
Elinor Glyn as Novelist, Moviemaker, Glamour Icon and BusinesswomanV. Barnett & A. Weedon
Barnett and Weedon's title aptly captures the uniqueness of Glyn's position within early twentieth-century popular culture. She was a creative figure whose diverse labours in literature, film and j...
Adaptation, Authorship, and Contemporary Women Filmmakers
Successful women filmmakers are a rare breed. The statistics for female directors working on top grossing films continues to be woefully small. To be a woman who directs is to face systematic disad
The big romance
This article explores fictive accounts of women's cinemagoing in Winifred Holtby's middlebrow interwar literature. The article looks at the ways in which Holtby's writing engaged with notions of female self-fashioning in relation to screen fictions through her novels The Crowded Street (1924) and South Riding: an English landscape (1936). More specifically, the article explores how Holtby's novels present a consideration of cinema's influence upo…
Bristol Deaf Memories
The deaf community in the UK has undergone major changes in recent years, which has uprooted it from its traditional foundations, the deaf club and deaf residential school. This article examines the effect of the closure of the deaf club in Bristol, a city in the South West of England, which resulted in the loss of an important community place and spaces for deaf people in the city. Focusing on a community event celebrating Bristol’s deaf heritag…
Can people on low incomes access affordable housing loans in urban Africa and Asia? Examples of innovative housing finance models from Reall’s global network
While delivering decent, affordable housing at scale is essential to global sustainable development, one formidable blockage is a lack of accessible housing finance for end users. People on low incomes have been perceived by lenders as high risk. They are excluded from financial systems and are forced to self-build using informal credit at exorbitant rates. This article engages with this problem, discussing practical examples and potential ways f…
Archiving star labour
This article seeks to complicate dominant narratives surrounding the star image of stage and screen star Vivien Leigh by interrogating how the material traces of her working life are retained within her dispersed archives. Leigh’s archives document both the development of her stage and screencraft and her alternative off-screen ‘roles’ in business, philanthropy and activism throughout her transatlantic career, spanning the 1930s to the 1960s. By …
The Boundaries of the Literary Archive
This volume offers new and challenging interdisciplinary approaches to the use and study of Literary Archives. Interrogating Literary and archival methodology and foregrounding new forms of textual scholarship, the collection includes essays from both academics and archivists to address the full complexity of the study of modern Literary Archives.The authors examine the increasing prominence of Archives and their importance to the interdisciplina…
The big romance
This article explores fictive accounts of women's cinemagoing in Winifred Holtby's middlebrow interwar literature. The article looks at the ways in which Holtby's writing engaged with notions of female self-fashioning in relation to screen fictions through her novels The Crowded Street (1924) and South Riding: an English landscape (1936). More specifically, the article explores how Holtby's novels present a consideration of cinema's influence upo…
Elinor Glyn as Novelist, Moviemaker, Glamour Icon and BusinesswomanV. Barnett & A. Weedon
Barnett and Weedon's title aptly captures the uniqueness of Glyn's position within early twentieth-century popular culture. She was a creative figure whose diverse labours in literature, film and j...
Adaptation, Authorship, and Contemporary Women Filmmakers
Successful women filmmakers are a rare breed. The statistics for female directors working on top grossing films continues to be woefully small. To be a woman who directs is to face systematic disad
The Boundaries of the Literary Archive
This volume offers new and challenging interdisciplinary approaches to the use and study of Literary Archives. Interrogating Literary and archival methodology and foregrounding new forms of textual scholarship, the collection includes essays from both academics and archivists to address the full complexity of the study of modern Literary Archives.The authors examine the increasing prominence of Archives and their importance to the interdisciplina…
Elinor Glyn's British Talkies
Existing accounts of Elinor Glyn's career have emphasized her substantial impact on early Hollywood. In contrast, relatively little attention has been paid to her less successful efforts to break into the UK film industry in the early sound period. This article addresses this underexplored period, focusing on Glyn's use of sound in her two 1930 British films, Knowing Men and The Price of Things. The article argues that Glyn's British production p…
Bristol Deaf Memories
The deaf community in the UK has undergone major changes in recent years, which has uprooted it from its traditional foundations, the deaf club and deaf residential school. This article examines the effect of the closure of the deaf club in Bristol, a city in the South West of England, which resulted in the loss of an important community place and spaces for deaf people in the city. Focusing on a community event celebrating Bristol’s deaf heritag…
Can people on low incomes access affordable housing loans in urban Africa and Asia? Examples of innovative housing finance models from Reall’s global network
While delivering decent, affordable housing at scale is essential to global sustainable development, one formidable blockage is a lack of accessible housing finance for end users. People on low incomes have been perceived by lenders as high risk. They are excluded from financial systems and are forced to self-build using informal credit at exorbitant rates. This article engages with this problem, discussing practical examples and potential ways f…
Archiving star labour
This article seeks to complicate dominant narratives surrounding the star image of stage and screen star Vivien Leigh by interrogating how the material traces of her working life are retained within her dispersed archives. Leigh’s archives document both the development of her stage and screencraft and her alternative off-screen ‘roles’ in business, philanthropy and activism throughout her transatlantic career, spanning the 1930s to the 1960s. By …
Llewella Chapman, Fashioning James Bond
There's more to middle age than a saggy belly
This article explores the changing star image of Kate Winslet as she enters middle age. It interrogates the media reception of her recent work and off-screen image, considering how discourses around women's agency, visibility, and opportunity in the wake of #MeToo and #TimesUp have impacted this reception specifically in relation to age. Taking Winslet's work in the HBO series Mare of Easttown and the independent film Ammonite as case studies, th…
Forget it's between two women
This article explores the gendered authorial negotiations at work in adaptations of Virginia Woolf's works and celebrity image in screen media, focusing on a case study of Vita and Virginia (2018) directed by British filmmaker Chanya Button.The article discusses Button's film's textual and promotional strategies, considering how it adapts both Eileen Atkins' 1995 play of the same name and original historical correspondence between Woolf and the w…
Art (8 works) · History (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Art history (5 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Irish and British Studies (3 works)