[ecrea] Women at Work in the British Film & Television Industries

CALL FOR BOOKS TO REVIEW/BOOK REVIEWERS

Journal of British Cinema and Television

Special Issue: ‘Women at Work in the British Film & Television Industries’



A forthcoming special issue of the Journal of British Cinema and 
Television (July 2013) will address the theme of women’s creative 
involvement in the British film and television industries. The editors 
seek books to review and those interested in reviewing books that relate 
to the themes of the special edition. We are interested in books that 
engage with any aspect of the broad range of roles that women have 
performed in the British television and film industries (through their 
entire historical periods), including writers, producers, directors, 
editors, sound engineers, costume designers, art directors, 
commissioning editors and continuity ‘girls’. While the primary focus is 
upon women’s creative contributions to British film and television 
industries we are interested in books that address women’s movements 
across transnational borders as well as those that address women’s work 
in other national film and television industries, as long as the reviews 
of such books make clear their relevance and importance to the study of 
women’s film and television work in the British context. We are also 
interested in women’s work in the independent and avant-garde sectors, 
and across a range of genres includingdocumentary, short-film, 
educational films, public information films and amateur film-making. 
Books are also welcome that address women’s work in distribution and 
exhibition or any of the following themes and issues in so far as these 
relate to the work of women in the British film and television industries:

· The input women have made to film-making and television production in 
Britain and the impact such production cultures have had on women as 
workers;

· The input women have made to film-making and television production in 
Britain and the impact such production cultures have had on women as 
workers;

· How social, economic and industrial conditions (including industry 
regulation) have impacted upon women’s roles and creative practices;

· The relationship between women’s work and media trade 
unions/professional guilds

· The connection between women’s access to production and screen 
representations of women/textual femininities

· The relationship between film and television genres, their gendered 
affiliations and women’s involvement in their production

· How women practitioners have attempted to negotiate femininity and 
feminism in their working lives

· Issues of pedagogy and methodology in the study of women’s input to 
film-making and television production



If you have a book to review or would like to be a book reviewer for 
this special issue please email Vicky Ball ((vicky.ball /at/ sunderland.ac.uk)) 
by 3rd September 2012.

Dr. Vicky Ball
Lecturer in Film, Media & Cultural Studies
Programme Leader MAs Film, Media and Cultural Studies
(vicky.ball /at/ sunderland.ac.uk)
0191 5152100
Staff page: http://www.crmcs.sunderland.ac.uk/research-staff/vicky-ball/
http://womensfilmandtelevisionhistory.wordpress.com/



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