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The short film ‘Still Running’, which is the focus of this chapter, came about as part of a project entitled ‘Young People and Place’ in which we explored young people’s experiences of growing up in a post-industrial locale. Cwm Dyffryn is a fictional name for a former coal-mining valley town in south Wales with a proud tradition of masculine working class labour. Methodologically we focus on the process of creating the short film. This process is presented through the lens of the emergence of dynamic assemblages (Deleuze and Guattari, 1987) when seven teen girls (aged 14–15 years old) and three adults, including the film-maker, set off from the girls’ secondary school with a boom, audio recorders, a professional camera and some basic running gear to make a film in a park on the edges of a major ex-mining town, just before the summer recess.
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Ivinson, G., Renold, E. (2016). Girls, Camera, (Intra)Action: Mapping Posthuman Possibilities in a Diffractive Analysis of Camera-Girl Assemblages in Research on Gender, Corporeality and Place. In: Taylor, C.A., Hughes, C. (eds) Posthuman Research Practices in Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137453082_11
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