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Eye-opening and disruptive, this counter-narrative (spliced together from oral histories, trade union records, and more) is a trove of trivia and untold truths. Highlighting the often-unseen but important accomplishments of women in film, this is a comprehensive, necessary addition to any cinephile's collection. --Library Journal (starred review) A revelatory study. This book not only challenges traditional film history by demanding gender sensitive attention to roles in film production normally ignored, but it changes conceptions of creativity to embrace a more complex understanding of the collaborative processes involved as opposed to the established conception of the director's authorial vision. --Christine Gledhill, co-editor of Doing Women's Film History: Reframing Cinemas, Past and Future Melanie Bell describes Movie Workers as a history that aims to 'disrupt the present' and she has done just that. Marshalling a rich array of evidence from trade union records, oral histories, and contemporaneous sources, Bell uncovers the essential work that women have performed at all levels of the British film industry for decades-work rendered invisible in traditional histories which have for too long glorified film directors as solitary creative geniuses and stubbornly refused to recognize feminized labor as labor. --Shelley Stamp, author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood

Melanie Bell describes Movie Workers as a history that aims to 'disrupt the present' and she has done just that. Marshalling a rich array of evidence from trade union records, oral histories, and contemporaneous sources, Bell uncovers the essential work that women have performed at all levels of the British film industry for decades-work rendered invisible in traditional histories which have for too long glorified film directors as solitary creative geniuses and stubbornly refused to recognize feminized labor as labor. --Shelley Stamp, author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood A revelatory study. This book not only challenges traditional film history by demanding gender sensitive attention to roles in film production normally ignored, but it changes conceptions of creativity to embrace a more complex understanding of the collaborative processes involved as opposed to the established conception of the director's authorial vision. --Christine Gledhill, co-editor of Doing Women's Film History: Reframing Cinemas, Past and Future

A revelatory study. This book not only challenges traditional film history by demanding gender sensitive attention to roles in film production normally ignored, but it changes conceptions of creativity to embrace a more complex understanding of the collaborative processes involved as opposed to the established conception of the director's authorial vision. --Christine Gledhill, co-editor of Doing Women's Film History: Reframing Cinemas, Past and Future Melanie Bell describes Movie Workers as a history that aims to 'disrupt the present' and she has done just that. Marshalling a rich array of evidence from trade union records, oral histories, and contemporaneous sources, Bell uncovers the essential work that women have performed at all levels of the British film industry for decades-work rendered invisible in traditional histories which have for too long glorified film directors as solitary creative geniuses and stubbornly refused to recognize feminized labor as labor. --Shelley Stamp, author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood

A revelatory study. This book not only challenges traditional film history by demanding gender sensitive attention to roles in film production normally ignored, but it changes conceptions of creativity to embrace a more complex understanding of the collaborative processes involved as opposed to the established conception of the director's authorial vision. --Christine Gledhill, co-editor of Doing Women's Film History: Reframing Cinemas, Past and Future

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Melanie Bell is a professor of film history in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. Her books include Julie Christie: Stardom and Cultural Production and Femininity in Frame: Women and 1950s British Popular Cinema.

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