Entertaining children: The 1927 Royal Commission on the Motion Picture Industry as a site of women’s leadership
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Tomsic, Mary. (2014). Entertaining children: The 1927 Royal Commission on the Motion Picture Industry as a site of women’s leadership. In Diversity in Leadership: Australian women, past and present pp. 253 - 267 ANU Press.
Authors | Tomsic, Mary |
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Abstract | [Extract] Mrs John Jones, president of the Victorian Women’s Citizen Movement, presented the above evidence to the Royal Commission on the Moving Picture Industry in Australia in 1927.² Jones compared the exploited children with exploited ‘natives’—both presumably requiring protection in the form of benevolent control. And it was a particular type and class of woman who could provide such control and guidance. For the women reformers, and also men, who appeared before the commission, the cinema was understood as a public arena in which a novel visual language was spoken. |
Page range | 253 - 267 |
Year | 2014 |
Book title | Diversity in Leadership: Australian women, past and present |
Publisher | ANU Press |
ISBN | 9781925021707 |
Research Group | Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences |
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