• Getting Over the Woman Problem: Creating an Inclusive Film Industry through Reclaiming The Frame 

  Handyside, F (Manchester University Press, 2021)

  In this interview with Mia Bays (Birds’ Eye View), we discuss the recent Reclaim The Frame project, a year-long UK-wide touring programme that showcases female directed or scripted films, usually new or recent releases. ...

• Words for a conversation: speech, doubt and faith in the films of Eric Rohmer and Mia Hansen-Love 

  Handyside, FJ (Routledge, 26 February 2018)

  Stanley Cavell’s Pursuits of Happiness (1981) and Contesting Tears (1996) are landmark studies that established the centrality of women’s experience in mid-twentieth century Hollywood’s imaginary and posed, against a ...

• Digital Opportunities for Feminist Film Historiography: Insights from the Reframing Vivien Leigh Project 

  Smithstead, L (University College Cork, 2021)

  This paper discusses some of the key methodological challenges emerging from the AHRC project Reframing Vivien Leigh: Stardom, Archives and Access, led by PI Dr. Lisa Stead at the University of Exeter. This twenty-month ...

• Dismembered Frames: Dialectic Intermedia in Peter Greenaway’s The Pillow Book 

  Morrison, B (Open Library of Humanities, 9 December 2020)

  Peter Greenaway’s The Pillow Book (1996) demonstrates the director’s recurring interest in images of dismemberment. These images represent an uncanny and grotesque literalisation of key metaphors. The climactic image of a ...

• Gender, Aura, and the Close-Up: Broadcasting Shakespeare for Female Audiences 

  Aebischer, P (Routledge, 2021)

  This essay provides an analysis of theater broadcasts of Nicholas Hytner’s Othello (2013) and Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female Julius Caesar (2017) which demonstrates how the use of zoom lenses and close-ups can generate a sense ...

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