Beyond the Silver Screen

A History of Women, Filmmaking and Film Culture in Australia 1920–1990

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by Mary Tomsic

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Australia

Keywords

Australia, women

Publishing date

2017

Publisher

Melbourne University Publishing (MUP)

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • ? pages
5 ½ x 8 ¾ inches (14 x 22 cm)

ISBN

978-0-522-87230-9

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Book Presentation:
Beyond the Silver Screen tells the history of women's engagement with filmmaking and film culture in twentieth-century Australia. In doing so, it explores an array of often hidden ways women in Australia have creatively worked with film. Beyond the Silver Screen examines film in a broad sense, considering feature filmmaking alongside government documentaries and political films. It also focuses on women's work regulating films and supporting film culture through organising film societies and workshops to encourage female filmmakers. As such, it tells a new narrative of Australian film history.Beyond the Silver Screen reveals the variety of roles film has in Australian society. It presents film as a medium of creative and political expression, which women have engaged with in diverse ways throughout the twentieth century. Gender roles and gendered ideologies operating within society at large have influenced women's opportunities to work with film and how their filmwork is recognised. Beyond the Silver Screen shows women's sustained involvement with film is best understood as political and cultural action.

About the Author:
Mary Tomsic is a Postdoctoral Research Associate researching visual representations of child refugees in the School of Historical and Political Studies at The University of Melbourne. Her teaching and research interests are in cultural history; visual culture; film and history; historical representations in popular culture; Australian film culture and histories of gender and sexualities. She is a co-convener of the Australian Women's History Network and the Melbourne Feminist History Group.

See the publisher website: Melbourne University Publishing (MUP)