The Pamela Davies Collection: Continuity supervision in British widescreen and colour cinema

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dc.contributor.authorRoberts, Steven
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.abstractFilm continuity supervision is a craft historically dominated by women. Yet, several years since Melanie Williams’s pathbreaking article on David Lean’s continuity supervisors, scholarship on this deeply gendered area of film production expertise remains lacking. In response, this dossier contribution will introduce Pamela Davies’ film continuity stills, catalogued by the author at the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum during an AHRC-funded placement (2018–2019). Davies secured the desired consistency of dialogue, cinematic staging and special effects in British cinema from 1948 to 1985, beginning with the post-war cycle of historical drama in widescreen and colour. Taking a multi-faceted archival approach, I discuss how photographs in the collection snapshot Davies at work and the stills photographers who collaborated with her during a transformative period in British cinema. Examining the stills in their material, craft and commercial contexts will raise new questions about continuity work and make the collection more accessible for researchers.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationRoberts, S. (2021) 'The Pamela Davies Collection: Continuity supervision in British widescreen and colour cinema', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 20, pp. 220-227. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.20.17en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.20.17
dc.identifier.endpage219
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued20
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphavilleen
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage213
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10988
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue20/HTML/DossierRoberts.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.subjectContinuityen
dc.subjectPhotographyen
dc.subjectWidescreenen
dc.subjectColouren
dc.subjectArchivesen
dc.titleThe Pamela Davies Collection: Continuity supervision in British widescreen and colour cinemaen
dc.typeArticle (non peer-reviewed)en
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