Wright, Julia (2009). Making the cut: Female Editors and Representation in the Film and Media Industry, UCLA Centre for the Study of Women, UCLA

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  1. This reading was worried about exactly the same thing I was – Why are so few women actually represented and recognised in editing literature?

    Wright tells us that not only “film historians” but even “feminist film scholars” have neglected to stress the influence of female editors in filmmaking to this day. She names countless discredited female editors, who worked with many famous directors, whose work has been brushed aside in favour of the few of these director’s films edited my men. Such people as Rose Smith, who was overlooked for her husband James Smith as D.W. Griffiths editor despite being behind 11 of his films (including Birth of a Nation).
    Wright puts this down to the invisible nature of the craft making women easier to edit out of history by prominent male theorists and historians.

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