Off to the Pictures: Cinemagoing, Women's Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain

Author:   Lisa Stead
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
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Pages:   232
Publication Date:   28 February 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Lisa Stead
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781474431910


ISBN 10:   1474431917
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   28 February 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Language:   Italian

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"""Lisa Stead's methodologically sophisticated and impeccably researched study of women and cinema culture between the wars brings under the spotlight a transformative moment when popular media, modernity, modernism and femininity came together in shaping unprecedented new ways of being a woman."" -- Professor Annette Kuhn, Queen Mary University of London""In bringing together ^cinema-going characters"" with ""creators of film fictions"" across an array of genres and media, Stead's project not only demonstrates how gender was navigated through cinema in this transformative period in the United Kingdom but also offers innovative means of interconnecting authorial and fictional identities, lived and imagined experiences, across media without collapsing them."" -- Laurel Harris, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature"


Lisa Stead's methodologically sophisticated and impeccably researched study of women and cinema culture between the wars brings under the spotlight a transformative moment when popular media, modernity, modernism and femininity came together in shaping unprecedented new ways of being a woman. -- Professor Annette Kuhn, Queen Mary University of London


Lisa Stead's methodologically sophisticated and impeccably researched study of women and cinema culture between the wars brings under the spotlight a transformative moment when popular media, modernity, modernism and femininity came together in shaping unprecedented new ways of being a woman. -- Professor Annette Kuhn, Queen Mary University of London In bringing together cinema-going characters with creators of film fictions across an array of genres and media, Stead's project not only demonstrates how gender was navigated through cinema in this transformative period in the United Kingdom but also offers innovative means of interconnecting authorial and fictional identities, lived and imagined experiences, across media without collapsing them. -- Laurel Harris, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature


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Lisa Stead is a Lecturer in Film Studies in the School of Art, Media and American Studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the co-editor of The Boundaries of the Literary Archive: Reclamation and Representation (2013). Her essays on fandom, archives and women's cinema have appeared in Women's History Review and Transformative Works and Cultures, among other publications.

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