Dr Lisa Smithstead

Uwch Ddarlithydd Astudiaethau Ffilm, Media

l.r.smithstead@abertawe.ac.uk

Siaradwr Cymraeg Sylfaenol

Ar gael ar gyfer Goruchwyliaeth Ôl-raddedig

Dolenni Ymchwil

Trosolwg

Mae Lisa yn Uwch-ddarlithydd Astudiaethau Ffilm yn Adran Y Cyfryngau a Chyfathrebu. Mae hi eisoes wedi darlithio ar Sinema Prydeinig ac Americanaidd ym Mhrifysgol Caerwysg ac Astudiaethau Ffilm ym Mhrifysgol East Anglia. Ymunodd Lisa ag Astudiaethau Ffilm Abertawe yn 2022.

Cafodd ei monograff cyntaf o'r enw Off to the Pictures: Cinemagoing, Women’s Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain ei gyhoeddi gan Wasg Prifysgol Caeredin yn 2016. Mae'r astudiaeth yn archwilio ffugiannau cyfryngol menywod dros y tri degawd cyntaf o ddiwylliant ffilm y DU, gan gynnig dealltwriaeth newydd o ddiwylliannau sinema a grëwyd gan fenywod, a'u dylanwad ar fywydau bob dydd menywod trwy ymchwiliad gwreiddiol o straeon byrion, llenyddiaeth ganol-ael a modernaidd, beirniadaeth dabloid, a chyfoeth o effemera. Cafodd ei hail fonograff, Reframing Vivien Leigh, ei gyhoeddi gan Wasg Prifysgol Rhydychen yn 2021. Yn y llyfr, archwiliwyd archifau Leigh ar draws y byd er mwyn mapio hanes newydd o'i heffaith greadigol a'i chrefft sgrîn a llwyfan. Mae elfennau eraill o ymchwil Lisa yn cynnwys hanesion am ffilmio ar leoliad mewn ardaloedd cefn gwlad a ffilm realiti archifol fel elfen allweddol o hanesion pobl fyddar yn ne-orllewin Lloegr, oedd yn rhan o Grant Cysylltu Cymunedoedd yr AHRC yn 2015.

Meysydd Arbenigedd

ffeministiaeth a hanes ffilm
sinema menywod
Ysgrifennu a diwylliannau print gan fenywod o ffilm
Addasu
sinema a chyfryngoli
sinema rhwng y ddau ryfel byd
cynulleidfaoedd a derbyniad ffilm
modernistiaeth, moderniaeth a'r sinema

Uchafbwyntiau Gyrfa

Ymchwil

Mae ymchwil Lisa'n canolbwyntio'n bennaf ar archifau, llafur creadigol menywod a hanesyddiaeth ffilm ffeministaidd. Mae ei gwaith wedi archwilio'r berthynas rhwng awduron benywaidd, gwneuthurwyr ffilmiau a chynulleidfaodd rhwng y ddau ryfel byd a Phrydain ac America gyfoes, gan edrych ar drafodaethau cyfryngol rhwng diwylliannau ffilm menywod a diwylliant print, diwylliannau serendod ffilm menywod a thrafodaethau ar awduraeth ffilmiau menywod.

Prif Wobrau

Cyhoeddiadau

Uchafbwyntiau Ymchwil

Smithstead, L. (2023). ‘Young Film Friends’: Gendering Children’s Film Culture in Interwar Film Periodicals. In Beth Rodgers, Michelle Smith and Kristine Moruzi (Ed.), The Edinburgh History of Children’s Periodicals Edinburgh University Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60759
Smithstead, L. (2021). Reframing Vivien Leigh: Stardom, Gender, and the archive (First ed.). Oxford University Press.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60709
https://academic.oup.com/book/39639
Smithstead, L. (2021). Digital opportunities for feminist film historiography. Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media(20), 191-204.
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.20.14, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60745
Smithstead, L. (2020). Part II: Interacting with Readers 6. ‘There is a War on. Does She Know?’: Transatlantic Female Stardom and Women’s Wartime Labour in British Film Fan Magazines. In Laurel Forster and Joanne Hollows (Ed.), Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s (pp. 117-132). Edinburgh University Press
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474469999-009, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60753
O’Brien, D., Smithstead, L., & Nourse, N. (2019). Bristol Deaf Memories: archives, nostalgia and the loss of community space in the deaf community in Bristol. Social and Cultural Geography, 20(7), 899-917.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2017.1392591, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60743

Holl Ymchwil

Erthyglau Cylchgronau

Smithstead, L. (2022). ‘There’s more to middle age than a saggy belly’: gender, ageing, and agency in Kate Winslet’s post Weinstein star image. Celebrity Studies, 0, 1-17.
https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2022.2157296, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62154
Smithstead, L. (2021). Digital opportunities for feminist film historiography. Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media(20), 191-204.
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.20.14, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60745
O’Brien, D., Smithstead, L., & Nourse, N. (2019). Bristol Deaf Memories: archives, nostalgia and the loss of community space in the deaf community in Bristol. Social and Cultural Geography, 20(7), 899-917.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2017.1392591, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60743
Smithstead, L. (2018). Elinor Glyn's British Talkies: Voice, Nationality and the Author On-Screen. Women: A Cultural Review, 29(2), 169-187.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2018.1447041, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60748
Smithstead, L. & Brydon, L. (2017). The English Village in Emma: An Empirical Study of Heritage Dramas, Location Filming and Host Communities. Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, 3(1), 101-114.
https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2421-454X/7149, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60749
https://series.unibo.it/article/view/7149
Smithstead, L. (2013). ‘The big romance’: Winifred Holtby and the fictionalisation of women's cinemagoing in interwar Yorkshire. Women's History Review, 22(5), 759-776.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2013.769384, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60750
Smithstead, L. (2011). "So oft to the movies they've been": British fan writing and female audiences in the silent cinema. Transformative Works and Cultures, 6
https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2011.0224, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60752

Llyfrau Awdurol

Smithstead, L. (2021). Reframing Vivien Leigh: Stardom, Gender, and the archive (First ed.). Oxford University Press.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60709
https://academic.oup.com/book/39639

Penodau Llyfrau

Smithstead, L. (2023). ‘Young Film Friends’: Gendering Children’s Film Culture in Interwar Film Periodicals. In Beth Rodgers, Michelle Smith and Kristine Moruzi (Ed.), The Edinburgh History of Children’s Periodicals Edinburgh University Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60759
Smithstead, L. (2020). Part II: Interacting with Readers 6. ‘There is a War on. Does She Know?’: Transatlantic Female Stardom and Women’s Wartime Labour in British Film Fan Magazines. In Laurel Forster and Joanne Hollows (Ed.), Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s (pp. 117-132). Edinburgh University Press
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474469999-009, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60753
Smithstead, L. (2017). "Dear Cinema Girls”: Girlhood, Picturegoing and the Interwar Film Magazine. In Catherine Clay, Maria DiCenzo, Barbara Green, Fiona Hackney (Ed.), Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period Edinburgh University Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60755
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-s-periodicals-and-print-culture-in-britain-1918-1939.html
Smithstead, L. (2013). Letter Writing, Cinemagoing and Archive Ephemera. In Lisa Stead, Carrie Smith (Ed.), The Boundaries of the Literary Archive: Reclamation and Representation Routledge
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60756
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315614090-18/letter-writing-cinemagoing-archive-ephemera-lisa-stead?context=ubx&refId=c9b32c11-eb2e-4ed4-bea3-f97e2fc3e67f
Smithstead, L. (2013). Introduction. In Lisa Stead, Carrie Smith (Ed.), The Boundaries of the Literary Archive: Reclamation and Representation Routledge
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60757
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315614090-6/introduction-lisa-stead?context=ubx&refId=0c2396b5-1d40-48e9-8d3a-f9e3995b3f9a
Smithstead, L. (2010). Audiences from the Film Archive: women’s writing and silent cinema. In Nandana Bose and Lee Grieveson (Ed.), Using Moving Image Archives (pp. 32-47). Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60758
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/scope/documents/2010/june-2010/archives-ebook.pdf

Llyfrau wedi'u Golygu

Smithstead, L. & Smith, C. (Eds.). (2013). The Boundaries of the Literary Archive: Reclamation and Representation. Routledge.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60742
https://www.routledge.com/The-Boundaries-of-the-Literary-Archive-Reclamation-and-Representation/Stead-Smith/p/book/9780815346586

Cynnyrch Ymchwil Arall

Smithstead, L. (2016). Off to the Pictures
https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694884.001.0001, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60710

Goruchwyliaeth

How women in subcultures are represented in British film between 1965-1985 (cyfredol)

MA

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Joanna Rydzewska

Modiwlau a Addysgir

MS-103 Introduction to Film Studies

Introduction to Film Studies provides students with the critical awareness and theories that will equip them to analyse films and film movements from a wide variety of angles. Students will examine key, representative films from several angles and learn to present their own analyses and findings in cogent, eloquent manner in seminars and in written work.
MS-238 Adaptation: Storytelling Across Media

This module will give you the critical tools you need to interrogate how stories travel across different media. It will look at translations and evolutions of stories from page to screen, but also between a range of other media ¿ including graphic novels, games, television and animation. The module will enable you to engage with a wide range of content from different periods in international media histories from silent cinema to contemporary transmedia franchising. By exploring these case studies, you will learn how to close read aspects of narrative, characterisation, ideology and spectacle as stories travel across media. In the process, you will develop key skills in textual analysis in context. Diverse case studies will also enable you to engage with the international and transnational nature of adaptation practices.
MS-310 Dissertation Preparation

This module introduces the practice of dissertation writing and research approaches for the study of media forms. texts and systems and their contribution to social life. It begins to explore the breadth of media studies through attention to the ways in which media matter. In what ways, and how significant are the media in the formation of individual identities and in the practices of everyday life? In the more public world, to what extent are media key to providing knowledge and enabling the debate necessary to the practices of democracy? The course enables students to build on their own experiences of media as consumers and users. But it also encourages critical attention to how the field of media studies has historically been forged: through argument and contestation between different academic approaches and disciplines.
MS-311 Dissertation

This dissertation enables students to engage in long term, in-depth research on a topic of their choice subject to the approval of the Department.
MS-347 'Reclaim the Frame': Women and Screen Media

This module will encourage you to reevaluate the past, present and future role of women in the British and American film and TV industries. Taking its cue from the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, the module places women at the centre of the study of film and TV genres, forms and innovations rather than on the periphery. It employs a range of historical and contemporary case studies to consider the impact and cultural significance of women¿s screen work above and below the line. The module will enable you to engage with a variety of textual material and qualitative and quantitative data to examine the state of play for women in the contemporary screen industries and understand why and how women¿s work has lacked visibility in the past. It takes an intersectional and inclusive approach to the topic, considering how women¿s work on and behind the big and small screen has intersected with key debates around gender, sexuality, and race. You will be able to engage with a diverse range of film and TV texts and developed advanced close reading skills for interrogating women¿s representation in screen media, and the creative labour of women behind the scenes.
MS-M10 Dissertation or Project

An innovative practice-based alternative to a Masters dissertation. Students are encouraged to develop projects across more than one area of media practice and to do so with dual supervision that embraces both theory and practice. Work produced should be at a professional level, accompanied by a reflective essay and presentation exploring the contextual, theoretical and practical issues raised by the project.
MS-M11 MA Project and Dissertation Preparation

This core module comprehensively prepares students for their Master¿s project or dissertation, which is an integral part of the requirements for the degree. It incorporates several key themes and issues across the communications, media practice and PR industries. It is a challenging, and stimulating module ¿ both for professional practitioners and those new to communications and media practice. The module encourages students to unite theory and practice in productive ways. It introduces students to a number of important research and project management methods essential for undertaking a successful project or dissertation.
MSS106 Hollywood: A History of American Film

Hollywood: A History of American Cinema is a contextual and chronological study of the history of Hollywood, its effect on American society and its attempts to reflect the changes of that society. Key films are studied in depth and in relation to each other and to social and political developments in the USA.

Dr Lisa Smithstead

Cyfeiriad ebost

Welsh language proficiency

Twitter Account

Dolenni Ymchwil

Trosolwg

Meysydd Arbenigedd

Uchafbwyntiau Gyrfa

Uchafbwyntiau Ymchwil

Holl Ymchwil

How women in subcultures are represented in British film between 1965-1985 (cyfredol)

MS-103 Introduction to Film Studies

MS-238 Adaptation: Storytelling Across Media

MS-310 Dissertation Preparation

MS-311 Dissertation

MS-347 'Reclaim the Frame': Women and Screen Media

MS-M10 Dissertation or Project

MS-M11 MA Project and Dissertation Preparation

MSS106 Hollywood: A History of American Film