Back into Focus: Women Filmmakers, the Amateur Trade Press and 1960s British Amateur Cinema

While recent scholarship has helped uncover specific stories of women in different commercial cinema industries, there remains a lacuna around the role amateur filmmakers within national contexts. Where male filmmaking often been linked to range solitary or group-based leisure pursuits, we cannot make same assumption about filmmaker’s involvement social groups, not least due gendered nature domestic and non-work activities post-war era. This article considers representation women's creative labour across 1960s dominant patriarchal trade journal, Britain's Amateur Cine World. Combining feminist digital humanities approaches allows us analyse data from this magazine reveal recurring debates tensions creativity, with particular concerns domesticity, technology.