Women in Focus: A Toolkit for Archiving Women's Amateur Film

Sarah Arnold; Paul Frith; Keith M. Johnston; Carolann Madden; Zoë Viney Burgess

Women in Focus: A Toolkit for Archiving Women's Amateur Film

Sarah Arnold, Paul Frith, Keith M. Johnston, Carolann Madden, Zoë Viney Burgess

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Abstract

This toolkit advocates for a new approach to the cataloguing of women filmmakers in local, regional, and national archives. Acknowledging that women's creative work has been under-reported and under-recognised, we have designed five tools that will aid archives and archivists when approaching amateur and non-professional films and film collections. Making small but significant adjustments to metadata creation can allow for a more accurate recording of the data around such creative women.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Norwich
Publisher	AHRC/UEA
Commissioning body	Arts and Humanities Research Council
Number of pages	16
Publication status	Published - Dec 2023

Keywords

amateur
feminism
women
cinema
filmmaking
archives
cultural heritage

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Women in Focus: A Toolkit for Archiving Women's Amateur Film

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UN SDGs

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