Women's Film and Television History Network (WFTHN)
Description
The Women's Film and Television History Network is a group of researchers, teachers, archivists, collections managers, students, professionals, and enthusiasts engaged in exploring the contributions women have made to the emergence and development of film and television. They have come together to form the Women’s Film & Television History Network-UK/Ireland as a means of encouraging, supporting and disseminating research into women’s participation in screen media, and exploring their wide range roles, including:
· scriptwriting · producing · directing · designing costumes, sets, props · acting, dancing, singing · cinematography · sound design & recording · editing · music · distributing · trade reviewing · exhibition & cinema managing · audiences & fans · journalism, criticism.
By raising the visibility of women’s present and past relationship to cinema and television the Women's Film and Television History Network aims to:
- ensure women’s work is recognised in the writing of screen histories;
- make a case for the preservation and availability of women’s films and television programmes;
- increase programming choice in film theatres, television channels, DVD outlets;
- encourage new approaches to film and television that are sensitive to gender, class and race;
- impact on the teaching of screen media in schools and colleges;
- raise the aspirations of young women who might seek careers in the media.
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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.
Founding year
2009
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2023-10-20 23:11:30