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‘The big romance’: Winifred Holtby and the fictionalisation of women's cinemagoing in interwar Yorkshire
Lisa Smithstead
Women's History Review, Volume: 22, Issue: 5, Pages: 759 - 776
Swansea University Author: Lisa Smithstead
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/09612025.2013.769384
Abstract
This article explores fictive accounts of women's cinemagoing in Winifred Holtby's middlebrow interwar literature. The article looks at the ways in which Holtby's writing engaged with notions of female self-fashioning in relation to screen fictions through her novels The Crowded Stree...
| Published in: | Women's History Review |
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| ISSN: | 0961-2025 1747-583X |
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Informa UK Limited
2013
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This article explores fictive accounts of women's cinemagoing in Winifred Holtby's middlebrow interwar literature. The article looks at the ways in which Holtby's writing engaged with notions of female self-fashioning in relation to screen fictions through her novels The Crowded Street (1924) and South Riding: an English landscape (1936). More specifically, the article explores how Holtby's novels present a consideration of cinema's influence upon women's lives and selfhoods as mediated through local and regional contexts of reception in her descriptions of rural and urban Yorkshire. The article begins by examining the practice of cinemagoing for women in Yorkshire during the interwar years, and moves to explore the contribution of cinema to cultural representations of femininity in this period, considering the ways in which Holtby used middlebrow fiction to actively critique cinema's more negative representations, whilst shaping a defence of women and cinema more generally within British interwar modernity. |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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5 |
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759 |
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776 |