"So oft to the movies they've been": British fan writing and female audiences in the silent cinema

Stead, Lisa Rose (2011) "So oft to the movies they've been": British fan writing and female audiences in the silent cinema. Transformative Works and Cultures, 6. ISSN 1941-2258

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Abstract

This article aims to address the ways in which working-class and lower-middle- class British women used silent-era fan magazines as a space for articulating their role within the development of a female film culture. The article focuses on letter pages that formed a key site for female contribution to British fan magazines across the silent era. In contributing to these pages, women found a space to debate and discuss the appeal and significance of particular female representations within film culture. Using detailed archival research tracing the content of a specific magazine, Picturegoer, across a 15-year period (1913–28), the article will show the dominance of particular types of female representation in both fan and "official" magazine discourses, analyzing the ways in which British women used these images to work through national tensions regarding modern femininity and traditional ideas of female propriety and restraint.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC), ISSN 1941-2258, is an online-only Gold Open Access publication of the nonprofit Organization for Transformative Works copyrighted under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. TWC is a member of DOAJ.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	fan culture,fandom,cinemagoing,letter writing,women,cinema history,magazines,1910s–20s britain,women's writing,female stars,fan magazine
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	09 Nov 2016 11:00
Last Modified:	08 Sep 2022 00:14
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/61280
DOI:	10.3983/twc.2011.0224

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