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BFI This week's programme in the pioneering series about independent cinema contrasts two recent films from outside the cinematic mainstream with an interesting short from the archive. 1. Miss Grant Goes to the Door is a wartime propaganda film made by the Ministry of Information at a time of acute anxiety over the threat to women left at home, educating and informing them of their dangers and responsibilities, using a fictional format. The film is of interest today not just as a historical document, but also because of the way the female characters are allowed to operate in the narrative. To what extent can Miss Grant, a middle-aged spinster, be a heroine and single-handedly repel the Nazis, and at what point do the forces of the state have to intervene? 2. Amy: Amy Johnson, the subject of the second of tonight's films became one of Britain's national heroines in 1930 by flying alone in 'Jason' her Moth aeroplane from Croydon to Darwin, Australia. Immortalised by the Jack Hylton Orchestra's hit "Amy, Wonderful Amy" and beneficiary of a £10,000 contract from the Daily Mail, Amy Johnson is the central figure in Peter Wollen and Laura Mulvey's 1980 film. Is a woman who ignores other styles of life to concentrate on her daily cleaning and checking drill a threat to society's conception of womanhood? 3. Dora, the third film in the Heroines programme, takes a new look at another woman caught in a man's world. Dora became the subject of one of Sigmund Freud's case histories. Was her silence a refusal to communicate as Freud thought, or a message in itself? Could she, a woman, speak in a male language? Interviews and linking material by Eleventh Hour Productions, Nottingham. C4 commissioning editor: Alan Fountain
Broadcast	11:00pm on Monday, 29th November 1982
Strand	The Eleventh Hour
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Duration	Unknown
Genre	Unknown
IMDb ID	n/a - BFI
Director	Brian Desmond Hurst, Peter Wollen
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Cast
Language	English
Repeat	No

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