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Professor of Film and Feminist Media Studies University of Southampton, UK
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🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible
8 days ago
Wendy Russell writes: "I am the Screencraft Lead Archivist at the British Film Institute, where I look after the (mostly) paper archives of filmmakers. As part of the WSW Archival Strand, (1/4)
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Rachel Maddow
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Gift link. Great piece, remarkable embedded footage:
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Why Is There a Voting Rights Act? A Timeline
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🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible
about 1 month ago
Lisa Smithstead writes: "My main role on the project is interviewing curators and archivists to find out more about their working methods with women’s screen work collections. (1/4)
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🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible
about 1 month ago
Phil Wickham writes: "I am the Curator of The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the University of Exeter. This is the leading museum dedicated to the moving image in the UK and holds over 94,000 items, forming a people’s history of cinema and optical media. (1/4)
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🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible
about 1 month ago
Katie Crosson writes: "Based at the University of Exeter in the Curation Strand, I am working on a script collection donated to the
@bdcmuseum.bsky.social
by Pinewood Studios, analysing screenplays written, conceived and developed by women. (1/8)
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🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible
about 1 month ago
Shelley Cobb says: "As part of the WSW team, I am working with Lisa Smithstead interviewing archivists and curators about their roles in the film industry and am learning so much about how they are working to prioritise women's visibility in archives (1/5)
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🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible
about 1 month ago
Jessica Boyall writes: "I’m a postdoctoral researcher working on the archival strand of the project (see the 'About' section of our website, link in bio). I’m based at the BFI National Archive, Screencraft Collections, where I’m mobilising the Gurinder Chadha collection (1/6)
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🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible
about 1 month ago
@helenexeter.bsky.social
writes: “I am the Project Lead for the fantastic team on the Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible Project. My role is to help co-ordinate our activities, but the work and generation of ideas and insights on our project is truly collaborative. (1/6)
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🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible
about 2 months ago
Meet the Women's Screen Work in Archives Made Visible project team! We will be sending out intros to each of us over the next few weeks, but you can see more here:
womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk/people/proje...
#womensscreenworkinarchives
#wswia
#womenfilmmakers
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Helen Hanson 🗃️🎞️🎥🎬📚
2 months ago
A big
#IWD
💜 🤍 💚 shout out to the FAB research team on
@womensscreenwork.bsky.social
which I’m leading. Our work with archives to make British
#womenfilmmakers
more discoverable and more visible is gathering pace. But even better, we just love working together. More⬇️
womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk
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Wendy Russell
4 months ago
My excellent colleague, Chantelle Boyea, introduced Tina Gharavi's short films last night, with some highlights from Tina's fascinating archive. Come here Tina speak about her work and archive on Friday at the BFI!
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9 months ago
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Kate Ross
9 months ago
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
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derek guy
10 months ago
Superman is the story of an immigrant who grew up in Kansas, landed a low-paying job as a reporter in Metropolis, and still had time for a hobby because urban housing was affordable.
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🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible
11 months ago
It was so great to be at
#DWFTH7
in Lincoln and to present our project’s first steps. Thanks for the insightful comments and discussion from the audience
#womensscreenwork
#femfilmhistory
#archives
@bdcmuseum.bsky.social
@bellecobb.bsky.social
@archiveswendy.bsky.social
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Natacha
about 1 year ago
Don’t forget, keep writing (politely but firmly) to Starmer…
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UEA UCU says join a union
about 1 year ago
🥰Lots of support for our strike from members of the public passing the picket line this morning! 🎺Give us a toot or come and say hi if you're passing by!
#SaveUEA
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Natacha
about 1 year ago
Statement by Translucent providing some context… Written by a lawyer with decades of experience in this area.
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derek guy
about 1 year ago
There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵
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derek guy
about 1 year ago
american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit
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Neil Ewen
about 1 year ago
We have two fully-funded PhD studentships available, one in film practice and one open call for any project in media/comms, drama, and film. Please share with suitable candidates
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Shelley Stamp
about 1 year ago
Spotted at tonight’s hockey game and posted without comment.
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Sarah Tuttle
over 1 year ago
Ugh, link here:
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This is very red flag. And hasn't been big news.
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QM_UCU
over 1 year ago
In case you feel inclined to ask your friendly local UK academic how they are. This has been our past fortnight...
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Wendy Russell
over 1 year ago
The Woman with a Movie Camera programme is out! I’ll be joining
@helenexeter.bsky.social
&
@britfilmmelanie.bsky.social
for a panel on Script Supervisors, then we’ll have a few items on display from the BFI National Archive
whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
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Helen Hanson 🗃️🎞️🎥🎬📚
over 1 year ago
We are hiring 2 x Postdocs to work on our AHRC project 'Women's Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible' app by:20/01/25 Details below ⬇️ 1) PDRA-Archives
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
#archivejobs
#specialcollections
#womenshistory
#womeninfilm
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Matthias Trost
over 1 year ago
If people outside of the UK wonder why their colleagues in the UK are stressed: Check out this list-->
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UK HE shrinking
This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…
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Wendy Russell
over 1 year ago
The other will work primarily with
@helenexeter.bsky.social
@lindaruthwilliams.bsky.social
and Phil Wickham at the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, focusing on the curation of collections of women filmmakers.
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Wendy Russell
over 1 year ago
Our AHRC project Women’s Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible has 2 postdoc research associate jobs. One will work mostly with me &
@helenexeter.bsky.social
with hands-on archives work on collections of women filmmakers at the BFI National Archive
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Shelley Stamp
over 1 year ago
It’s not too late! Deadline has been extended to Dec 20.
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over 1 year ago
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Prof Erica Borgstrom
over 1 year ago
For those of you who write and publish, especially if you are UK-based, remember to register your items with ALCS. They collect money paid for copying/distributing work and pay it to authors. The cut-off for the March payment is to register your items by Nov 30th.
www.alcs.co.uk/about-alcs/
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This is information about ALCS.
https://www.alcs.co.uk/about-alcs/
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✿ Dr Laura J Minor ✿
over 1 year ago
London people: I'll be talking about my new book 'Reclaiming Female Authorship in UK Television Comedy' at the BFI Library on Monday the 2nd of December, 18:30 🎭 Link to buy a ticket below!
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Caroline Renard
over 1 year ago
There you go.
www.blackwomendirectors.co
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Black Women Directors
Black Women Directors indexes the work of Black women filmmakers around the globe.
https://www.blackwomendirectors.co/
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Shelley Stamp
over 1 year ago
Please consider signing this one, folks. The Herrick and the Academy Archive are vital, vital resources.
#filmsky
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