Researching Black women and film history

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dc.contributor.authorFrymus, Agata
dc.contributor.editorArnold, Sarahen
dc.contributor.editorO'Brien, Anneen
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-29T09:38:41Z
dc.date.available2021-01-29T09:38:41Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractMy project (Horizon 2020, 2018–20) traces Black female moviegoing in Harlem during the silent film era. The main challenge in uncovering the women’s stories is that historical paradigm has always prioritised the voices of the white, middle-class elite. In the field of Black film history, criticism expressed by male journalists—such as Lester A. Walton of New York Age—has understandably received the most attention (Everett; Field, Uplift). Black, working-class women are notoriously missing from the archive. How do we navigate historical records, with their own limits and absences? This paper argues for a broader engagement with historic artefacts—memoirs, correspondence and recollections—as necessary to re-centre film historiography towards the marginalised. It points to the ways in which we can learn from the scholars and methods of African American history to “fill in the gaps” in the study of historical spectatorship.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationFrymus, A. (2021) 'Researching Black women and film history', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 20, pp. 228-236. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.20.18en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.20.18
dc.identifier.endpage227
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued20
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphavilleen
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage220
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10987
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue20/HTML/DossierFrymus.html
dc.rights© 2021, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectFilm historyen
dc.subjectAfrican Americanen
dc.subjectMoviegoingen
dc.subjectSilent filmen
dc.subjectMethodologyen
dc.subjectWomen’s historyen
dc.titleResearching Black women and film historyen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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