Abstract
Issue 20 - The scholarship collected in this issue of Alphaville represents a selection of the research that was to be presented at the 2020 Doing Womenâs Film & Television History conference, which was one of the many events cancelled as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic itself greatly impeded academic life and our capacity to carry out and share research among colleagues, students and the public. Covid-19 was even more problematic for women, who shouldered a disproportionate care burden throughout the pandemic. Therefore, we are particularly delighted to be able to present an issue that addresses a number of topics and themes related to the study of women in film and television, including, but not limited to, the production and use of archival collections for the study of womenâs film and television histories; the foregrounding of women in Irish film and television histories; womenâs productions and representation in films of the Middle East; representations of sex and sexuality in television drama; and womenâs work and labour in film and television. The breadth of the themes covered here is indicative of the many ways in which scholars seek to produce, describe and uncover the histories and practices of women in these media. They suggest opportunities for drawing attention to womenâs work, whether that is labouring in the film and television industries or the work that womenâs images are put to do on screen. Collectively, the articles contained in this issue point to a multitude of opportunities for doing and producing womenâs film and television histories, either as they occurred in the past or as they materialise in the present. They offer correctives to absences and marginalisation in production histories, in archiving or preservation, and in representation.
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