Off to the Pictures: Cinemagoing, Women's Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain

Off to the Pictures offers a rich new exploration of gendered cultures of cinema between the wars, and their complex intersections with literary media. Examining a range of writings, from newspapers and magazines to middlebrow and modernist fictions, Lisa Stead argues that the diverse storytelling media that women constructed around filmgoing came to constitute a gendered intermedial movie culture at this time. Looking at the writings of figures such as Winifred Holtby, Stella Gibbons, Eliz...