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Female Writers in Silent British Cinema. BFI Southbank, Women and Silent Britain
Female Writers in Silent British Cinema. BFI Southbank, Women and Silent Britain |
 7 November 2009 9.45 - 17.00. |
Tickets: Tickets £10 (day only), joint ticket with evening screening £15
Nathalie.Morris@bfi.org.uk
BFI Southbank, NFT3
This study day will consider all aspects of writing for or about the screen by the large number of women involved in the British cinema industry of the silent era, whether as screenwriters, critics, columnists, publicists, or authors of source novels and plays. Featuring new research on the delightfully catty critic, Nerina Shute; Elinor Glyn, the novelist who put the 'it' in It! and the prolific screenwriter Lydia Hayward, the day will consist of screenings from the BFI National Archive, talks and workshops, followed by Adrian Brunel's rarely screened silent classic The Constant Nymph (1928) which was based on Margaret Kennedy's novel and play and adapted for the screen by Alma Reville.
The day will include contributions from Christine Gledhill (University of Sunderland), Jane Gaines (Columbia University), Drake Stutesman (editor Framework and co-chair Women's Film Preservation Fund, New York), Nicola Beauman (Persephone Books), Kate Kinnamont (Women in Film and Television, UK), Sarah Street (University of Bristol), Alexis Weedon (University of Bedfordshire), Lawrence Napper (Kings College, University of London), Clare Watson (University of East Anglia), Laraine Porter (Leicester de Montfort University) Amy Sargeant (University of Warwick), critic and broadcaster Matthew Sweet, and Nathalie Morris and Bryony Dixon of the BFI.
The Constant Nymph (1928) 18.15 NFT3 with live piano accompaniment
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