Title Off to the pictures : cinema-going, women's writing and movie culture in interwar Britain / Lisa Stead

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations Contents Off to the pictures: cinema, fiction and interwar culture -- Screen fantasies: tie-ins and the short story -- Middlebrow modernity: class, cinema-going and selfhood -- Wander, watch, repeat: Jean Rhys and cinema -- Film talk: C.A. Lejeune and the female film critic -- Elinor Glyn: intermedial romance and authorial stardom Summary 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. 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-216) and index Notes Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL Print version record SUBJECT Großbritannien Consulate Frankfurt am Main gnd Kino gnd Subject Motion pictures and women -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Feminism and motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Motion pictures in literature. English prose literature -- Women authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference. English prose literature -- Women authors Feminism and motion pictures Motion pictures Motion pictures and women Motion pictures in literature Women -- Social conditions Frauenliteratur Great Britain Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2016479254 ISBN 9780748694891 0748694897 9781474413954 1474413951 1474426700 9781474426701

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