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Stalking the image: Margaret Tait and Intimate Filmmaking Practices

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Neely S (2008) Stalking the image: Margaret Tait and Intimate Filmmaking Practices. Screen, 49 (2), pp. 216-221. https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjn029

Abstract
First paragraph: Margaret Tait's artistic concern with the detail of the everyday shares much with general conceptions of feminist filmmaking practices, in which self-expression is identified as an antidote to the oversimplified representations of women in mainstream cinema. As Pam Cook explains, the ¡®emphasis on the personal, the intimate and the domestic, has always been important to the Women's Movement and the personal diary form, for instance, has always been a means of self-expression for women to whom other avenues were closed¡¯.2 While Tait maintained she was filming what was around her rather than attempting any kind of autobiographical work, the body of her work, including film poems, portraits and hand-painted films, is frequently praised for its ability to capture the ¡®authenticity¡¯ of experience.

Keywords
Tait; Poetry; Women and Film; Scotland; Feminism and motion pictures; Feminist films; Women in motion pictures; Tait, Margaret Ann, 1907-1985

Journal
Screen: Volume 49, Issue 2

StatusPublished
Publication date31/12/2008
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PublisherOxford University Press
ISSN0036-9543
eISSN1460-2474

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