Un-Caging the Orphan: What Intersectionality Can Teach Us About the

Educational Role of Orphan Works

Ashley Blewer & Travis Wagner

University of South CarolinaMoving Image Research Collections

Department of Women’s and Gender Studies

Intersectionalityrace, gender, class, sex, sexual orientation, ability, religion, body, age, ethnicity, nationality, education

Orphanpublic domain materials, home movies, outtakes, unreleased films, industrial and educational movies, independent documentaries, ethnographic films, newsreels, censored material, underground works, experimental pieces, silent-era productions, stock footage, found footage, medical films, kinescopes, small- and unusual-gauge films, amateur productions, surveillance footage, test reels, government films, advertisements, sponsored films, student works, and sundry other ephemeral pieces of celluloid

CollectionsNews:Fox Movietone collectionSouth Carolina television newsTelevision and cinema commercials

Educational:Spartanburg Police Films collection

Personal/”home movies”:Lula Belle and Scotty WisemanLever-KarstWatson-CambreScott NixonPhelpsBuffington

BUTFIRST

GENDER

RACE

CLASS

LAYERS

DON’T FORGET:

...ability, religion, body, age, nationality, sexual

orientation…et cetera

Ability

Nationality

Age

Body

Religion

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University of South CarolinaMoving Image Research Collections

{Available for research}

Thank you!

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