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Exploring the contributions women have made to the emergence and development of film and television. Next conference: DWFTH7, Lincoln, 18-20 July 2025
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Joined January 2012
We have a new blog series on television! If anyone’s interested in contributing a blog to our new TV Blog Series (or would like to find out more), contact our new TV Blog Editor, Laura Minor, or click the link below!
Some good news: I'll be the editor of a new TV Blog Series for @WFTHN, working with @CSTonlinetv. We're after blogs between 800-1200 words on women & TV (history). If you're interested in contributing, DM/email me! You can find my editor's intro here:
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Ideal Beauty takes a fresh look at Greta Garbo - an icon who helped to define female beauty in the twentieth century - and provides answers to much-debated questions. @RutgersUPress @WFTHN 📽️ Use code KeY46 to get 40% off the eBook until 20th June📱: https://t.co/mDOR4d23kN
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CALL FOR PAPERS: "What's Class Got to Do With It? Rethinking TV from the Inside Out" - One-day symposium @LeedsUniMedia, 19 Sept 2025 - Keynote: @PhilipRalph9 - Abstracts (250 words) due 4 July at whatsontvclass@gmail.com @whatsonTVclass - Registration is free (details TBA)
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📣 TOMORROW from 5-6pm BST: a FREE online celebration of women's TV authorship! I'll be discussing my book on UK comedians with Sarah Arnold, alongside Sarah Smyth & Stefania Marghitu on their special dossier exploring authorship/adaptations 📣 Register:
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Join us online for WFTHN Presents: Women's Television Authorship, where we celebrate some recent scholarship on women's television authorshi
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We've joined Bluesky! https://t.co/DyT8kHauGa Follow us there for the latest information about the network, our blogs and our conferences
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Join us this evening from 6:30pm, as we take a look at Behind the Scenes: Exploring Harmful Behaviours in the Irish Screen Industries, a report by Dr. Susan Liddy and Dr. Fergal Rhatigan. https://t.co/xrbVFQpa1r
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Seeking contributors to write about women in/on television (800-1200 words) for the WFTHN blog. Contact l.j.minor@salford.ac.uk for details and see our published articles below! 📺
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Proposals for Women and the Silent Screen XII are due in less than one month!! We can't wait to see what you submit 📽️ https://t.co/yZJbJyXjbC
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NEW TV BLOG POST: @ExeterFilm's Leona Heimfeld explores layered spectatorship in @TheCrownNetflix, examining the representation of Princess Diana & how female students interpret this pivotal history. Read it here! 👇 https://t.co/A6LhNX78Vx
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by Leona Heimfeld Fig. 1. Still from The Crown Season 3 Episode 1 Siegfried Kracauer, in Theory of Film, describes the strangely transporting effect of memory while watching old documentary films c…
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Call for Papers: Women and Silent Screen XII
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“Form and Feeling in Silent Cinema” June 11-14, 2025 Université libre de Bruxelles, University of Antwerp, and Cinematek Call for Papers Deadline: 2 December 2024 The 2025 Women and Film History In…
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BAFTSS is coming to Warwick! Please see the CFP at the following link: https://t.co/HyJYq39wCu Deadline 16th December
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Delighted my article on Sally Wainwright’s ‘Happy Valley’ starring Sarah Lancashire is on the @WFTHN blog. Big thanks to editor @lrjdmnr #HappyValley
The Ultimate TV Event: How Happy Valley Defies Ageism and Sexism in the Television Industry by @lucyaabrown
https://t.co/yxBoXYiISG via @WFTHN
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The Ultimate TV Event: How Happy Valley Defies Ageism and Sexism in the Television Industry by @lucyaabrown
https://t.co/yxBoXYiISG via @WFTHN
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by Lucy Brown This blog first appeared on Reflections: A Television Digest on 10 May 2024. Sarah Lancashire as Sergeant Catherine Cawood. Image: BBC “Chilling,” “a dark delight,” “magnificent,” “tr…
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The CFP for our next conference is live! Doing Women's Film and Television History VII - Entangled Media: Past and Present CFP deadline 6 December 2024. Conference held at University of Lincoln, 18-20 June 2025. https://t.co/sA1u92hGs2
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18-20 June 2025, University of Lincoln This seventh iteration of the Women’s Film and Television History Network conference will foreground transnational and transmedial approaches to histories of …
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Fredric Jameson has passed--what an unmatched American intellectual presence for the last 50 (at least) years. "Marxism and Form" is his best book, imho, but my favorite line of his comes from "Brecht and Method": "History puts its worst foot forward." Rest in Power, Fred.
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TRACING EXPERIMENTAL FEMINIST IMAGINATIONS: from the archive to the post-digital ✨ + discussion w/ Laura Mulvey & @SarahPucill co-curated by Lucy Peetas + Kat Hayletts 1 Oct 6.30 @riocinema + 3 Oct @FourCornersE2 Rare 16mm projection!! 📸 @_cinenova
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"Ruth Ann Baldwin was one of many female directors working at Universal during the silent era. A keen awareness of narrative convention as well as a wry perspective on the motion picture business comes across in [her] surviving feature, ’49-’17 (1917)."
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Save the date for the next Women and the Silent Screen conference!! More info and the CFP coming soon!
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Amazing opportunity for a Black British Woman to receive a scholarship to study Cinematography at @NFTSFilmTV sponsored by @netflix. Pls spread far & wide - it could be the opportunity someone is waiting for! ✨
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We’re so looking forward to seeing the UK Premiere of The Dragon Painter (1919) today @wshed, 2:10pm as part of @CineRedis. Intro by @PamHutch and music by Mas Koga. Thanks to @MilestoneFilms and @KinoLorberIntl! More info: https://t.co/txzK0Jn5BZ
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We've finished publishing TV blogs for the academic year, and we're looking for new submissions from September onwards. If you're interested in writing for us, please email l.j.minor@salford.ac.uk. Here's a list of the amazing submissions we had! --->
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