Women in motion pictures

Summary of contents A collection of handwritten notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, printed digitised papers, printed articles, typed manuscript, appendices of feature films of the first half of the 20th century, a ‘Film and History’ Conference guide and a copy of The Film Archive’s ‘Newsreel’ publication. The two central themes are women in entertainment and New Zealand cinema (film and audience). Included is a proposal by LC for a paper titled ‘Seeing is Believing: Cinema and Film in New Zealand’....

Summary of contents

A collection of printed articles that analyse the relationship between films and their audiences. Major themes of the collection include “the creation of movie fan culture”, the ‘American Dream’ and the notion of ‘rags to riches’, historiography of pop culture research, immobility of women in earlier film-making, and the relationship between socio-politics and film. The publication date range is 1970-1996. The subject matter incudes dates between c. 1892-1981.

Scope and Contents note

Poster advertising a film festival of films made by women and about women. Includes a splatter of red ink.

Scope and Contents note

Poster advertising a 1979 film festival of films made by women and about women. Poster is blue, red & white with a drawing of an eye with film negative representing the iris. There is a splatter of red ink over the pupil. Also includes the text: 'With the support of the Committee on Women'.