Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary Film Culture in the UK, is a large Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project, researching and writing the contemporary history of women working in the UK film industry of the 21st century.
Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary Film Culture in the UK, was a research project that investigated what is distinctive about the work of women in British cinema and what obstacles women face in the industry. This innovative research project ran for 15 years, conducting primary research through a detailed statistical analysis of British films…
Shelley Cobb (PI) and Linda Ruth Williams (Co-I) led a team of six women working to support the research goals of Calling the Shots. The AHRC’s generous funding of Calling the Shots supported research time for Shelley and Linda, as well as a full-time research fellow for three years, two fully-funded PGR students, and a…
During the Calling the Shots research project, we conducted 50 interviews with women who work in key production roles in the UK film industry, which remains dominated by men. The interviews provided valuable research material and documented first-hand the thoughts, career stories and experiences of all interviewees working in filmmaking. We recorded each interview as…
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