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‘To Be a Woman’: Female Labour and Memory in Documentary Film Production, 1929–50 (2013)
Journal Article
Fox, J. (2013). ‘To Be a Woman’: Female Labour and Memory in Documentary Film Production, 1929–50. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 10(1), 584-602. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2013.0159

Despite extensive scholarship on British documentary in the period from 1929 to 1950, the role of female documentary film-makers has received relatively little attention, partly due to their fragmented and partial ‘archival trace’. Combining neglecte... Read More about ‘To Be a Woman’: Female Labour and Memory in Documentary Film Production, 1929–50.

From Documentary Film to Television Documentaries: John Grierson and This Wonderful World (2013)
Journal Article
Fox, J. (2013). From Documentary Film to Television Documentaries: John Grierson and This Wonderful World. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 10(3), 498-523. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2013.0152

In October 1957, John Grierson, the founder of the British documentary film movement, made the transition to a new medium: television. His series for STV, This Wonderful World, which ran in its original form until August 1965, introduced audiences to... Read More about From Documentary Film to Television Documentaries: John Grierson and This Wonderful World.