Helen Hanson 🗃️🎞️🎥🎬📚
@helenexeter.bsky.social
Prof in Film History Uni of Exeter, UK | Research #FilmHistory, #WomenFilmmakers #Adaptation #FilmSound #FilmNoir. Books: Hollywood Soundscapes & Hollywood Heroines #FilmSky 🗃️🎥🎞️🎬 PI: @womensscreenwork.bsky.social https://womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk/
I've signed and sent a letter - from authors, broadcasters, journalists, artists, scholars and performers - to express our deep concern at @exeter.ac.uk’s troubling plans to make mass redundancies within the Humanities Dept @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social. I would love it if you read and shared widely.
Postdoctoral Researcher Katie Crosson writes: "Many thanks to International Women's Broadcasting Histories for hosting me to talk at their inaugural conference, held at the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and online. (1/7)
June Brings Deep Cuts at Several Universities Two universities announced plans to cut more than 100 employees last month, while multiple others announced their own cost-cutting moves to shed jobs and programs. https://bit.ly/4f5lIhI #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Pachisi, a game originating from India (4thC AD). The Western equivalent is Ludo. It is played on a cross shaped surface which is hand sewn with embroidered designs in the squares #WomensArt
@exeter.ac.uk is not in deficit, has £200m+ cash reserves, hasn’t invested in white elephants, doesn’t have a recruitment problem, never had 1000s of international students, and deliveres outstanding outcomes in teaching and research. If UEB’s data projects a deficit won’t they share it with UCU?
👇🏻 A developing thread on proposed job cuts at Uni of Exeter #DefendExeterUni
Helen Hanson 🗃️🎞️🎥🎬📚@helenexeter.bsky.social · last mo.Excellent educators and researchers at the University of Exeter are at risk of redundancy. c.150 job roles will be cut across Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Climate Science and more. Please share & sign the petition here: www.change.org/p/stop-redun... @exeterucu.bsky.social #DefendExeterUni
👇🏻👇🏻 A developing thread 🧵 tracking the proposal to cut c.150 jobs at the University of Exeter #DefendExeterUni
Helen Hanson 🗃️🎞️🎥🎬📚@helenexeter.bsky.social · last mo.Excellent educators and researchers at the University of Exeter are at risk of redundancy. c.150 job roles will be cut across Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Climate Science and more. Please share & sign the petition here: www.change.org/p/stop-redun... @exeterucu.bsky.social #DefendExeterUni
Excellent educators and researchers at the University of Exeter are at risk of redundancy. c.150 job roles will be cut across Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Climate Science and more. Please share & sign the petition here: www.change.org/p/stop-redun... @exeterucu.bsky.social #DefendExeterUni
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Excited to announce: ‘Doing Women's Screen and Media Histories 8 (WFTHN) conf will be 16th-18th June 2027 at the University of Exeter, hosted by our @womensscreenwork.bsky.social project team. We can't wait! womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk/events/confe... #feministfilmhistory #archives #DWSMH27
Doing Women's Screen & Media History Conference 2027 - Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible
‘Archiving and Curating Women’s Media Histories: Feminist Challenges, Approaches, Practices, Possibilities.’ We are delighted that the 8th iteration of the Women’s Film and Television History Network ...
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Wendy Russell writes: "I am the Screencraft Lead Archivist at the British Film Institute, where I look after the (mostly) paper archives of filmmakers. As part of the WSW Archival Strand, (1/4)
Lisa Smithstead writes: "My main role on the project is interviewing curators and archivists to find out more about their working methods with women’s screen work collections. (1/4)
Phil Wickham writes: "I am the Curator of The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the University of Exeter. This is the leading museum dedicated to the moving image in the UK and holds over 94,000 items, forming a people’s history of cinema and optical media. (1/4)
Katie Crosson writes: "Based at the University of Exeter in the Curation Strand, I am working on a script collection donated to the @bdcmuseum.bsky.social by Pinewood Studios, analysing screenplays written, conceived and developed by women. (1/8)
Shelley Cobb says: "As part of the WSW team, I am working with Lisa Smithstead interviewing archivists and curators about their roles in the film industry and am learning so much about how they are working to prioritise women's visibility in archives (1/5)
Jessica Boyall writes: "I’m a postdoctoral researcher working on the archival strand of the project (see the 'About' section of our website, link in bio). I’m based at the BFI National Archive, Screencraft Collections, where I’m mobilising the Gurinder Chadha collection (1/6)
@helenexeter.bsky.social writes: “I am the Project Lead for the fantastic team on the Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible Project. My role is to help co-ordinate our activities, but the work and generation of ideas and insights on our project is truly collaborative. (1/6)
Meet the Women's Screen Work in Archives Made Visible project team! We will be sending out intros to each of us over the next few weeks, but you can see more here: womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk/people/proje... #womensscreenworkinarchives #wswia #womenfilmmakers
A big #IWD 💜 🤍 💚 shout out to the FAB research team on @womensscreenwork.bsky.social which I’m leading. Our work with archives to make British #womenfilmmakers more discoverable and more visible is gathering pace. But even better, we just love working together. More⬇️ womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk
Home - Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible
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Delighted to be hosting a book launch for the new edited collection WOMEN IN HOLLYWOOD’S DREAM FACTORY: TALES OF INEQUALITY, ABUSE & RESISTANCE. Join us March 18. 📚 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Book Launch: Women in Hollywood’s Dream Factory
A virtual launch of Women in Hollywood’s Dream Factory: Tales of Inequality, Abuse, and Resistance edited by Karen McNally.
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Our @womensscreenwork.bsky.social post-doc, Dr Jessica Boyall, wrote this lovely piece about Gurinder Chadha and Tina Gharavi's archives held at Screencraft, BFI National Archive: www.bfi.org.uk/features/bey...
“I have made so little”: what the archives of two women filmmakers tell us about the film industry
The paper archives of Gurinder Chadha and Tina Gharavi reveal both filmmakers’ prodigious creativity and dedication to their craft, but also the challenges and pushbacks they’ve faced in a male-domina...
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Wonderful last night of our Beyond the Frame: Women Filmmakers & their Archives season, BFI. We watched Bride & Prejudice with a lively audience then Gurinder Chadha Q&A, ending the night with Gurinder meeting artists Athen & Nina & seeing their Bend It installation. @womensscreenwork.bsky.social
Artist duo, Athen & Nina, were commissioned by BFI Screencraft and supported by @womensscreenwork.bsky.social to respond to Bend It Like Beckham materials in the Gurinder Chadha Collection. If near Southbank, do take a look at their installation. Until 1st Feb. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
Even if the world forgets me, you please don’t | BFI Southbank
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Thrilled with wk 1 of Beyond The Frame: Women Filmmakers & their Archives. Last night we saw Tina's brilliant I Am Nasrine, after which she discussed her work & archive with @lindaruthwilliams.bsky.social @womensscreenwork.bsky.social Amazing to bring women filmmakers' archives to cinema audiences
Booking is now open for 'Beyond the Frame: Women Filmmakers and their Archives', a series of events feat. Tina Gharavi and Gurinder Chadha. Programmed by @archiveswendy.bsky.social & Grace Johnston Tickets are selling fast for these events, book here: whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
Beyond the Frame: Women Filmmakers and their Archives | BFI Southbank
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Come see this lovely short season at the BFI! Beyond the Frame: Women Filmmakers & their Archives As leading figures in British cinema, Tina Gharavi & Gurinder Chadha’s work remains relevant for both current and future audiences. @womensscreenwork.bsky.social #BFI whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
Beyond the Frame: Women Filmmakers and their Archives | BFI Southbank
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Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research? We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections. Find out more: collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
Do you have creative kids aged 9-12? Why not bring them along to our next #workshop - 'From Script to Screen' - on 15th November? A fantastic chance for children to explore #creative choices behind the scenes of #filmmaking as part of the @beinghumanfest.bsky.social. Book here: tinyurl.com/mw9em9tu
