Women's Film History Network - UK/Ireland

传统上，电影史很少关注女性对电影史的贡献--除了作为女演员。但从一开始，女性就一直活跃在电影中和电影周围，担任导演、编剧、设计师、电影所有者、发行商、公关人员、评论员、观众和活动家等。因此，在1990年代后期，在美国发起了一个国际女性电影先锋项目，以解决历史知识方面的这一差距。目前，该机构的总部设在纽约哥伦比亚大学电影系，与之相对应的是自2000年以来在不同国家举办的两年一度的“女性与无声屏幕大会”。这些举措通过2009年6月上线的一个新网站得到了妇女和电影历史国际的支持。直到最近，这项工作在英国几乎没有什么影响，也没有看到英国对国际论坛的贡献。因此，发起了英国/爱尔兰跨学科和国际联系的女性电影史网络，以促进和支持对英国/爱尔兰从无声时期到现在的女性电影史的研究。该网络与总部设在美国的倡议合作，以便利用它们在世界各地的人脉、研究来源和专业知识--特别是哥伦比亚大学的数字研究和奖学金中心--并为研究的国际化做出贡献。通过拟举办的四个讲习班中的第一个讲习班，该网络将侧重于其妇女历史、文学和跨媒体研究方面的专家提出的问题，以确定研究妇女电影史的新视角、新来源和新途径。第二期讲习班与哥伦比亚大学电影处合作举办，将集中纽约的妇女电影和媒体机构以及妇女和电影史国际协会的欧洲合作者，以解决电影制作的国际层面产生的概念性和实践性问题，包括由此产生的妇女作品的存档、发行和展示问题以及可能的数字解决方案。第三期讲习班将使高等院校的网络成员与代表英国/爱尔兰的档案馆、图书馆、展览活动的网络成员汇聚一堂，以找出数据库建设和共享方面的问题和解决办法。第四个讲习班综合了所有三个讲习班的成果，将建立一个章程和组织基础，以继续为该网络提供后AHRC的资金。这将包括为一名数字设计师设计一份简报，以开发基于网络的支持和数据库支持，以便将未来的研究人员和用户联系起来，为此将寻求进一步的资金。因此，该网络将把通过支持妇女电影史研究而获得的知识推广到教育工作者、妇女专业媒体组织、电影和电影节节目制作人，以提高妇女电影和媒体工作的知名度，提高女孩和青年妇女作为潜在进入媒体职业的人的愿望，并增加妇女电影和电视节目供公众欣赏的机会。

Traditionally film history has paid little attention to the contribution of women to film history - other than as actresses. But from its beginning women have been active in and around cinema as directors, scriptwriters, designers, cinema owners, distributors, publicists, reviewers, audiences, campaigners and so on. Consequently in the late 1990s an International Women Film Pioneers Project was initiated in America to address this gap in historical knowledge. This is now based in the Film Division at Columbia University, New York, and is paralleled by a biennial 'Women and Silent Screen Congress,' staged in different countries since 2000. These initiatives are supported by Women and Film History International through a new website going live in June 2009. Till recently this work has had little impact in Britain, and seen little British contribution to international fora. The interdisciplinary and internationally connected Women's Film History Network - UK/Ireland has therefore been initiated to promote and support research into women's filmmaking history in UK/Ireland, from the silent period to the present. The Network collaborates with the American based initiatives in order both to draw from their world-wide connections, research sources, and expertise - especially Columbia University's Center for Digital Research and Scholarship - and to contribute to the internationalising of research. Through the first of four proposed Workshops, the Network will focus on issues posed by its experts in women's history, literary and cross-media studies in order to identify the new perspectives, sources and avenues of investigation through which women's film histories can be researched. The second Workshop, held in collaboration with the Film Division of Columbia University, will draw on the concentration of Women's film-based and media agencies in New York and the Women and Film History International association's European collaborators to address conceptual and practical issues arising from the international dimensions of film production, including the resulting problems of archiving, circulation and exhibition of women's work and potential digital solutions. Workshop three will bring network members from HEIs together with those representing archives, libraries, exhibition activities in UK/Ireland in order to identify problems and solutions for database construction and sharing. Drawing together the results from all three workshops, the fourth will construct a constitution and organisational foundation for the continuance of the Network post-AHRC funding. This will include devising a brief for a digital designer to develop web-based and databasing support to link future researchers and users, for which further funds will be sought. Thus the Network will extend knowledge gained through its support for research into women's film histories to educators, women's professional media organisations, film and festival programmers, in order to enhance the visibility of women's film and media work, raise the aspirations of girls and young women as potential entrants to screen media professions and increase the availability of women's films and television programming for general public enjoyment.