Scotland’s for Me? The (gendered) salience of parental status and geographical location to experiences of working in film and television

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dc.contributor.authorBerridge, Susan
dc.contributor.editorBerry, Marshaen
dc.contributor.editorDooley, Kathen
dc.contributor.editorMcHugh, Margareten
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-20T09:23:43Z
dc.date.available2022-12-20T09:23:43Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractIn recent years, international scholarship and industry reports have exposed the inherent incompatibilities between the media sector’s working cultures and caring responsibilities, focusing particularly on women who remain disproportionately responsible for childcare. The ideal media worker—characterised by geographical mobility, autonomy, adaptability and total commitment to work—is highly at odds with the material realities of parents and carers. However, despite recognition of the salience of mobility to wider (gendered) patterns of exclusion of parents, there is little scholarship that critically scrutinises the significance of geographical location on their experiences of work. This article addresses this lack, contributing to wider debates around the need to promote equity, diversity and inclusion in the film and television workforce, which, in turn, is viewed as crucial to facilitating diverse representations, voices and perspectives on-screen. Using the Scottish screen sector as a case study, the article draws on a series of one-to-one interviews with parents – both men and women – who work, or have previously worked, in the film and television industries to explore the complex ways in which gender inequalities are mediated by both geographical location and caring responsibilities.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationBerridge, S. (2022) 'Scotland’s for Me? The (gendered) salience of parental status and geographical location to experiences of working in film and television', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 24, pp. 64-78. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.24.04en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.24.04
dc.identifier.endpage78
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued24
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphavilleen
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage64
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/13988
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttps://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue24/HTML/ArticleBerridge.html
dc.rights© 2022, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectProduction culturesen
dc.subjectCreative labouren
dc.subjectGender inequalitiesen
dc.subjectCaring responsibilitiesen
dc.titleScotland’s for Me? The (gendered) salience of parental status and geographical location to experiences of working in film and televisionen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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