Off to the Pictures: Cinemagoing, Women’s Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain

Lisa Stead

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2016

Off to the Pictures

Cinemagoing, Women’s Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain

Lisa Stead

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748694891

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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Off to the Pictures: Cinema, Fiction and Interwar Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
2 Screen Fantasies: Tie-ins and the Short Story Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
3 Middlebrow Modernity: Class, Cinema-going and Selfhood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
4 Wander, Watch, Repeat: Jean Rhys and Cinema Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
5 Film Talk: C. A. Lejeune and the Female Film Critic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
6 Elinor Glyn: Intermedial Romance and Authorial Stardom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

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Published: August 12, 2016
ISBN: 9780748694891