Visible Legacies of Invisible Resources: Gas Infrastructure, Women, and Environmental Control in 1930s British Documentary Movement Films

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作者
Marcum, Joni Hayward [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Wisconsin Milwaukee, Media Cinema & Digital Studies, Milwaukee, WI 53211 USA
来源
FILM HISTORY | 2021年 / 33卷 / 04期
关键词
British documentary movement; energy humanities; environmental humanities; women's labor; invisibility; gas;
D O I
10.2979/filmhistory.33.4.04
中图分类号
J9 [电影、电视艺术]; I235 [电影、电视、广播剧];
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摘要
Three short British documentary movement films produced for the British gas industry, Housing Problems (1935), The Smoke Menace (1937), and The Obedient Flame (1939), highlight the importance of switching to gas use in homes. These films advertise efficient, quiet, and invisible gas as a solution to social and environmental ills. The regulation of this resource, and thus the onus of environmental regulation, falls primarily into the hands of women. The films grant agency to both energy infrastructure and its human mediators while stressing their need to operate unseen.
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页码:81 / 108
页数:28
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