Lisa Stead

Off to the Pictures (eBook, PDF)

Cinemagoing, Women's Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines women's constructions of selfhood through film and literature in interwar Britain

Off to the Pictures: Cinemagoing, Women's Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain offers a rich new exploration of interwar women's fictions and their complex intersections with cinema. Interrogating a range of writings, from newspapers and magazines to middlebrow and modernist fictions, the book takes the reader through the diverse print and storytelling media that women constructed around interwar film-going, arguing that literary forms came to constitute an intermedial gendered cinema culture at this time.

Using detailed case studies, this innovative book draws upon new archival research, industrial analysis and close textual readings to consider cinema's place in the fictions and critical writings of major literary figures such as Winifred Holtby, Stella Gibbons, Elizabeth Bowen, Jean Rhys, Elinor Glyn, C. A. Lejeune and Iris Barry. Through the lens of feminist film historiography, Off to the Pictures presents a bold new view of interwar cinema culture, read through the creative reflections of the women who experienced it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748694891
• Artikelnr.: 50217145

Autorenporträt

Dr Lisa Stead is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Swansea University. She is the author of Reframing Vivien Leigh: Stardom, Gender and the Archive (OUP, 2021) and Off to the Pictures: Women's Writing, Cinemagoing, and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain (EUP 2016). She is co-editor (with Carrie Smith) of The Boundaries of the Literary archive (Routledge, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1: Off to the Pictures: Cinema, Fiction and Interwar Culture
Chapter 2: Screen Fantasies: Tie-ins and the Short Story
Chapter 3: Middlebrow Modernity: Class, Cinemagoing and Selfhood
Chapter 4: Wander, Watch, Repeat: Jean Rhys and Cinema
Chapter 5: Film Talk: C. A. Lejeune and the Female Film Critic
Chapter 6: Elinor Glyn: Intermedial Romance and Authorial Stardom
Afterword
Bibliography
Index