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Bean, J. M. W.

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“…Women's absence from canonised historical filmographies is a common theme in feminist film scholarship (e.g. Bean and Negra 2002; Beeston and Solomon 2023; Field 2022; Gledhill and Knight 2015; Mukherjee 2020; Stigsdotter 2019). This rich body of scholarship has frequently interrogated the ideological significance of the archival lacunae, a multifarious challenge common to all historians but exacerbated by the fact that women, alongside other groups historically marginalised because of their ethnicity, race, sexuality and so on, ‘have left few historical traces, their role in production of film culture obscured by more publicly visible or self-promotional male partners or concealed behind collective or collaborative practices’ (Gledhill and Knight 2015, 4).…”

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Working in the dream factory: gendering women's film labour under Fascism

Mereu Keating

2024

Mod. Italy

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This article draws on a broad range of under-explored historical sources to document the career trajectories of the women who worked in the Italian film industry between 1930 and 1944. Challenging established histories that normalise male dominance in Italian cinema during and after Mussolini's regime, the article sheds light on women's overlooked contribution to Italy's sound film industry and explores the multilayered, shifting dimension of their precarious and gendered labour. Engaging with key questions raised by historians of Italian Fascism and by feminist research in film and media history, the article delineates intersectional barriers to film employment faced by women in the years of the dictatorship and points to their historical legacy.

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