Publication shortlisted for BAFTSS award

Working Women on Screen: Paid Labour and Fourth Wave Feminism, co-edited by BCMCR researchers Dr Ellie Tomsett and Dr Poppy Wilde, along with Dr Nathalie Weidhase from the University of Surrey, has been shortlisted by the British Association for Film, Television, and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) for their annual best edited collection award.

The book, including individual chapters from BCU’s Tomsett and Wilde, brings together 13 contributions from international scholars on Aesthetic Labour; Power, Politics, and Neoliberal Industries; and Sex, Sexuality, and Relationships.

The award winners will be announced at the annual BAFTSS conference in March 2025.

See the shortlist of publications here, including further categories such as best monograph, and best article or chapter.

Praise for Working Women on Screen: Paid Labour and Fourth Wave Feminism:

“This is a wide-ranging and timely collection with a sharp critical and analytical lens on the current realm of popular representations of women and work in the frame of neoliberal culture. It will be immensely useful for teachers and researchers in feminist media studies.”

Angela McRobbie, Professor Emeritus Goldsmiths University of London, UK.

“This book sheds new light on the ways in which women’s paid labour is depicted in the contemporary moment. It is both necessary and vital and unpicks the complexities of how limited and often damaging screen representations are suffused in the contemporary media landscape.”

Kirsty Fairclough, Professor of Screen Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.