[ecrea] Call for papers British Women Documentary Filmmakers 1930-1955

*CALL FOR PAPERS:British Women Documentary Filmmakers 1930-1955*

Proposals are invited for a one-day symposium to be held at the London 
School of Economics on 5^th April 2019.

As the work of filmmakers including Jill Craigie, Kay Mander and Marion 
Grierson testify, women have played a significant part in the early 
decades of British documentary and informational film-making. Women were 
a vital part of the war effort and this was apparent in the films made 
by the Ministry of Information as well as newsreels, documentaries and 
dramas. Women also worked behind the camera as directors, editors and 
scriptwriters on instructional and propaganda films.Yet much early 
British documentary history on Grierson and the Documentary Movement 
tends to elide the ways in which non-canonical works engage differently 
with questions of the nation, gender, class and identity and the ways in 
which form and content are linked to context of production.

This one-day symposium seeks to deepen understanding of women’s creative 
presence in British documentary film-making. Papers may explore 
individual films and filmmakers, as well as the industrial, social and 
historical contexts in which they worked. While WWII has been 
foregrounded in accounts of women’s participation in British film 
production, the day will consider a longer historical period including 
the innovations in documentary of the 1930s and the changing industry of 
the post-war period.

Topics and questions might include:

·Women working within informational film-making

·New approaches to women and non-fiction film-making in wartime and/or 
post-war period

·How do emerging accounts of women’s role in the industry reshape 
standard accounts of documentary?

·What can individual careers tell us about the obstacles and 
opportunities faced by women in the sector at different times within the 
period?

·Does the study of women’s participation in film problematize dominant 
conceptions of ‘talent’, creativity and authorship?

·The impact of distribution and reception on historical awareness of 
films by women

·How can wider histories of women’s work during World War inform studies 
of women’s labour in film?

·Feminist film historiographies and documentary film-making

·Emerging methodologies for constructing women’s film histories

*Please email abstracts of 300-500 words, 3-5 keywords and up to 5 key 
references to: (gender /at/ lse.ac.uk) <mailto:(gender /at/ lse.ac.uk)> Deadline for 
submissions is 17.00 on 1 November 2018.*

Please note:

·The abstract should be in word format as an attachment with your 
Surname and Initials as the file name and please make sure you put BWDF 
in the subject line.

·Please also include a 100 word bio.

·Please include your NAME, EMAIL ADRESS AND INSTIUTION (if any) on the 
proposal/abstract itself.

·Any queries please contact: Kate Steward (k.steward /at/ lse.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(k.steward /at/ lse.ac.uk)>

We will respond to submissions by 30th November 2018.

The symposium is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council

as part of the project, /Jill Craigie: Film Pioneer,/ led by Lizzie 
Thynne (PI, University of Sussex) with Yvonne Tasker (Co-I, University 
of East Anglia) and Sadie Wearing (Co-I, LSE). We anticipate producing a 
journal issue from selected papers.


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