Making women amateur filmmakers visible
Reclaiming Women's Work Through the Film Archive
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4348134 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Patricia Hill (0000-0001-7283-335X, Newcastle University, corresponding author), Sarah Hill (0000-0003-3555-433X, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK), Keith M Johnston (0000-0002-1989-8549, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 875-889 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612025.2019.1703541 |
| OpenAlex | W2956556515 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
This article considers the place of women’s amateur film within regional and national film archive holdings through a specific case study of the ‘Women Amateur Filmmakers in Britain’ project at the East Anglian Film Archive (EAFA). Reflecting on the process of cataloguing and presenting this collection, the article will explore the challenges of making women’s creative filmed work visible, suggesting that women’s amateur films exist at a crucial overlap of archival oversight and cultural stigma. We argue that prevailing associations of archive film with space, place and location could prevent feminist-led projects from gaining traction in the contested world of exhibition where locality often overshadows other thematic or stylistic approaches. We argue that only by reconsidering the types of films that are prioritised for preservation and presentation can women’s films be made fully visible
Amateur · Art · Exhibition · Filmmaking · Media studies · Movie theater · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |