Tasker, Y orcid.org/0000-0001-8130-2251 (2021) Jill Craigie, Post-war British Film Culture and the British Film Academy. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 18 (4). pp. 404-422. ISSN 1743-4521
Abstract
This article seeks to locate the socialist feminist film-maker Jill Craigie in the British film culture of the post-war period. Long regarded in scholarly accounts as something of an outsider, a woman who was effectively shut out of the industry during the 1950s, this article seeks to position Craigie rather differently. While acknowledging the obstacles she undoubtedly faced, it details aspects of her achievements and her visibility in the British film culture of the immediate post-war period. Craigie's politically driven documentaries and realist film practice accorded with prevailing discourses of ‘quality’ and she acquired the status of what would today be termed a media personality who worked across film, radio, television and print media. Considering Craigie as a figure embedded in the British film establishment, this article gives particular emphasis to her role in the British Film Academy (BFA), arguing that the significance of this practitioner-led organisation has yet to be fully recognised in British film history. The argument draws on archives held at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to begin a discussion of how the BFA, and Craigie as the first woman to be elected to its Management Council, played its part in the development of British film culture.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Yvonne Tasker. This is an author produced version of an article published in Journal of British Cinema and Television. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Blue Scar, British Film Academy (BFA), Jill Craigie, Out of Chaos, ‘quality’ cinema, The Way We Live, women's film history |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council) AH/R01308X/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 17 Jun 2021 13:46 |
Last Modified: | 17 May 2023 01:18 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.3366/jbctv.2021.0587 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:175280 |