Hi again. This seems like a very specific question you're chasing but maybe Anne Balsamo's Technologies of the Gendered Body might have something to say on this. From personal experience, when I worked in TV news, there was a belief that women could not carry the weight of the gear and therefor they were better suited to editing the news rather than gathering it. At the time, mid 1980s, the betacam was just coming in so the majority of gear was still about 80 pounds distributed unevenly on the body. The betacam was better balanced but still heavy, although not too heavy for the few women I knew who were in the industry. At the time only 5% of television news photographers were female (nationally). The guys would do everything they could to keep women out of the field. >Does anyone know of studies that address the gendering of film >technology, such as cameras? I'm familiar with work like this in >popular music (particularly on the electric guitar), but other than >Mulvey's discussion of the camera's male gaze, I don't know of anyone >who has specifically addressed filmmaking equipment as masculine and >how this might contribute to females' reluctance to get involved in >film production. > >Any references on this topic would be much appreciated. > >Thanks! > >mary > > >Mary Celeste Kearney >Assistant Professor >Department of Radio-Television-Film >The University of Texas at Austin >Office: 512-475-8648 >Fax: 512-471-4077 > >---- >Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the >University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu Karen Orr Vered, PhD Lecturer & Director of Studies Screen Studies Flinders University GPO Box 2100 Adelaide 5001 South Australia voice 61 8 8201 3198 fax 61 8 8201 3635 [log in to unmask] ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite