In 1975, Barthes confessed his love for cinema—the hypnotising space, today Bradbury-Rance ponders on the magic of the small screen.
Clara Bradbury-Rance
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey
Clara Bradbury-Rance is a Lecturer in the Department of Liberal Arts at King’s College London, where she also sits on the steering committee of Queer@King’s. Her book Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2019. The book argues that the queer disruption of visibility politics has yielded new cinematic languages and radically altered how we talk about lesbian desire’s visual form. A Spanish translation of the book was launched in Mexico City in November 2019 in collaboration with Osífragos Editorial and MIC Género. Clara is on the board of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture and edited its special issue Feminist Pedagogies (2020). She publishes widely on contemporary queer and feminist cinema and popular culture, and you can find links to her open-access work at https://linktr.ee/cbradburyrance