scholarly journals Digital opportunities for feminist film historiography

2021 ◽  
pp. 191-204
Author(s):  
Lisa Stead
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Film History ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
The South ◽  
Turn On ◽  
South West ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Feminist Film ◽  
Women's Film ◽  
The University

This paper discusses some of the key methodological challenges emerging from the AHRC project Reframing Vivien Leigh: Stardom, Archives and Access, led by PI Dr. Lisa Stead at the University of Exeter. This twenty-month project examined how the legacies of screen star Vivien Leigh are archived and curated by a range of public institutions in the South West of England, taking audiences behind the scenes of local archives and museums. The paper reflects on how researching within rural heritage centres and volunteer run archives encourages the introduction of new voices and new case studies within women’s film history, by encompassing the archival labour of a network of volunteers, amateurs and professionals within a broader heritage sector whose historical actions and choices produce alternative kinds of women’s film history. It reflects in turn on the challenge involved in finding new ways to present these histories in interactive, digital and physical forms for audiences beyond the academy and to make meaningful impact from this kind of research.

I. Lindemann in Physics

1987 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-189 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Annual Report ◽  
The South ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
South West ◽  
University College ◽  
Holiday Home ◽  
The University

LINDEMANN’S father was of French Alsacian origin and came to England around the time that Germany annexed Alsace-Lorraine in 1871. He married a widow whose first husband had bought ‘Sidholme’, the largest of the Regency villas in the part of Sidmouth (Devon) called Elysian Fields. The house was built in 1826 by the Earl of Buckingham and stands in 14 acres of grounds with 300 different varieties of tree. An addition had soon to be made to the house when the Earl fell out with the local rector and wanted to hold his own services; it became the music room in the Lindemanns’ time and was where Lindemann heard Paderewski play. Lindemann’s father had a laboratory and observatory in the grounds and some of Lindemann’s research was done there. When Mrs Lindemann died in 1927 the house passed to her son by her first marriage and the Lindemanns were distressed that he immediately sold it with the contents, forcing them to move. The observatory was given to the University College of the South West (which became Exeter University) and this was acknowledged in the 5th Annual Report and Prospectus of 1927. An Adam Hilger astronomical spectroscope dating from about 1885 is in a show case at the University and carries the statement ‘This spectroscope was probably used at Sidmouth, where A. F. Lindemann (father of the late Lord Cherwell) had an observatory at his home’. ‘Sidholme’ is now a Methodist Guild holiday home.

scholarly journals Sir Vincent Brian Wigglesworth, C. B. E., 17 April 1899 - 12 February 1994

1996 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 541-553 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
General Practitioner ◽  
Early Death ◽  
The South ◽  
North West ◽  
South West ◽  
Scale Models ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester ◽  
Artistic Talent

On 17 April 1899, in Kirkham, Lancashire, Vincent Brian Wigglesworth was born into a talented and idiosyncratic Victorian family with roots going back to the hamlet of Wigglesworth in the south-west comer of Yorkshire. He was the son of Sydney Wigglesworth, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Captain R.A.M.C., and Margaret Emmeline (née Pierce). Sydney Wigglesworth was a general practitioner but also an amateur mechanic and inventor who had studied engineering at Owens College (later the University of Manchester) before changing to medicine. He made scale models of locomotives and was a passionate pioneer motorist. Margaret Pierce came from a well-to-do family of London solicitors originating from Devon yeoman stock with business and nautical interests (Pierce Sound in North West Canada is named after an eighteenth-century ancestor). As an amateur painter trained at South Kensington she developed a great eye for colour. It was the kind of family that produced many famous Englishmen, artists as well as scientists. V.B.W.’s scientific illustrations show that he inherited his mothers artistic talent. His elder brother’s career as a landscape painter was cut short by his early death in 1936.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Gledhill ◽  
Julia Knight
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Film History ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Silent Cinema ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Women's Film ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Different Parts

This book examines film history with the goal of reframing it to accommodate new approaches to women's filmmaking. It brings together a wide range of case studies investigating women's work in cinema across its histories as they play out in different parts of the world from the pioneering days of silent cinema through recent developments in HD transmissions of live opera. It also tackles a range of conceptual and methodological questions about how to research women's film history—how, for example, to reconceptualize film history in order to locate the impact of women in that history. Furthermore, the book looks at the debates over relations among gender, aesthetics, and feminism. In this introduction, a number of interrelated themes and issues that can be grouped into four broad problematics are discussed: evidence and interpretation; feminist expectations of both contemporary and past women's filmmaking; the impact of women's film history on existing historical narratives and theories; and factors that determine the visibility of women's films and build audiences for them.

Catabatic Winds in Oraviţa Depression (Romania). Case Studies

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ciprian Chiriac ◽  
Ovidiu Murărescu
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Air Pressure ◽  
The South ◽  
Air Masses ◽  
The North ◽  
South West

Abstract In some situations, field positioning of air pressure through development of anticyclone in the north - northeast of Romania and a cyclone in the south-west, create conditions favoring intensifying dynamics of air masses in Oraviţa Depression area. This phenomenon generates a catabatic wind which is known local as Coşava. Mode of expression is as strong intensification of the burst, which gives rise to considerable material damages. This study takes into account the analysis of three cases considered by us to be representative.

A Note on an Arthropod from the South Wales Coalfield

1932 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
pp. 275-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Dix ◽  
S. H. Jones
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Light Blue ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
South Wales ◽  
University College ◽  
The University ◽  
Coal Measures

A SMALL Arthropod was discovered by one of us (S. H. J.) in the course of investigations of the Coal Measures of the area around Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, on the north crop of the South Wales Coalfield. It is preserved in a fine grained, light blue shale from the roof of the Little Vein (lower part of the Pulchra Zone of Davies and Trueman), at the Blaina Colliery, Pantyffnon, about one mile south-west of Ammanford. The specimen is in the collection of the University College of Swansea, No. A. 152.

Sargonid sculpture and the late Assyrian cubit

Iraq ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 89-103
Author(s):  
Eleanor Guralnick
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
The South ◽  
Oriental Institute ◽  
South West ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Battle Scenes ◽  
The University

AbstractDuring the Spring of 1991, the Fall of 1993 and the Summer of 1994, a major effort was completed to measure all the surviving untrimmed, monolithic and essentially entirely preserved Late Assyrian sculptured slabs and figures from Khorsabad, dating to the time of Sargon II, that are now held in Western museums. The programme of measurement was undertaken as the Paris slabs were in the process of being installed in their new home in the Richelieu Wing, Musée du Louvre, Paris. The Khorsabad slabs in the British Museum, London, the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, and the Sargon stele in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin were also measured. In addition, a number of slabs in the British Museum from the South-West and North Palaces at Nineveh were measured. Some were carved during the reign of Sennacherib, while others, from Room 23, were decorated in the reign of Assurbanipal.The first stages in the analysis of the measurements have already led to a number of useful observations concerning the standards of measurement used in decorating Late Assyrian Palaces. Measurement of untrimmed slab widths and frieze heights from Nineveh portraying battle scenes suggest that the standard Late Assyrian cubit equalled 51.5 cm in length. Slabs from Khorsabad Façade L are cut to this same cubit. On the other hand, religio-mythological royal emblemata, or guardians of the gates, at the palace of Sargon at Khorsabad were carved in accordance with a cubit of 56.6 cm, precisely three finger-breadths longer than the standard cubit. A slab featuring King Sargon was carved to a cubit 55 cms in length, precisely two finger-breadths longer than the standard. This confirms the existence of three Late Assyrian cubits: a standard cubit, a “Big Cubit” (KÙŠ GAL-ti in the annals of Sennacherib, AS4.LUM GAL-ti in a text of Esarhaddon), and the rare “Cubit of the King” (KÙŠ LUGAL in Late Assyrian cuneiform documents), which is probably the same as the “Royal Cubit” (basileios pēchys), three finger-breadths longer than the standard cubit, mentioned by the Greek historian Herodotus (I, 178).

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