For Ladies Only? Eve's Film Review: Pathe Cinemagazine 1921-33 - Softcover

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In Britain during the 1920s there was an unprecedented interest in what was seen to be a new visibility of female sexuality, and in the gradual infiltration of traditionally male spheres by women. This interest was a reaction to many changes that had taken place in women's lives during the First World War and was also a response to the struggle for universal suffrage that was taking place at this time. Commentators expressed the view that 'femininity' was under threat from the mannish dress and behaviour of 'modern women'. Shared perceptions, prejudices and ideas about 'the new woman' were circulated in newspapers and magazines and through the cinema, many of them critical of new freedoms.

This book provides historical context for the debates and themes running through Eve's Film Review 'cinemagazine', a term used from the late 1910s to describe a cinematic diversion similar to the newsreel in format but very different in subject matter and tone of address. Produced weekly and offering a 'slice of life', they contained films showing the strange and curious as well as the workaday. Jenny Hammerton defines the boundaries of the cinemagazine, and investigates its standing as a form which lies outside the conventions of the narrative feature which has come to dominate cinema screens.

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