Looking for Lela Simone: Singin’ in the Rain and Microhistories of Women’s Sound Work Behind the Scenes and Below-the-Line in Classical Hollywood Cinema
- Submitting institution
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University of Exeter
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 5658
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1080/09612025.2019.1703537
- Title of journal
- Women's History Review
- Article number
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- First page
- 822
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 5
- ISSN
- 0961-2025
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- 'Looking for Lela Simone' is a 9,100-word article that contextualises labour in the Classical Hollywood cinema through extensive research in a number of international archives: the Margaret Herrick Library (Vincente Minelli, Paramount Pictures, and MGM Scripts collections), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oral Histories collection, the University of Southern California Cinematic Arts Library Collections, (MGM Music Department files; Arthur Freed collection; Roger Edens collection). The article undertakes rigorous contextual research into 1930s-1950s Hollywood, and speaks to the fields of media production studies, revisionist film history and microhistory, while engaging with wider questions of gender and historiography.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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