Women filmmakers in early Hollywood /
Mahar, Karen Ward,1960-
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-276) and index.
Making movies and incorporating gender -- "the greatest electrical novelty in the world" : gender and filmmaking before the turn of the century -- Expansion, stardom, and uplift : women enter the American movie industry, 1908-1916. A quiet invasion : nickelodeons, narratives, and the first women in film -- "To get some of the 'good gravy'" for themselves : stardom, features, and the first star-producers -- "So much more natural to a woman" : gender, uplift, and the woman filmmaker -- Women in serials and short comedies, 1912-1922. The "girls who play" : the short film and the new woman -- "A business pure and simple" : the end of uplift and the masculinization of Hollywood, 1916-1928. "The real punches" : Lois Weber, Cecil B. Demille, and the end of the uplift movement -- A "her-own-company epidemic" : stars as independent producers -- "Doing a 'man's work" : the rise of the studio system and the remasculinization of filmmaking -- "Getting away with it"
Women in the motion picture industry
Women in motion pictures.
Motion pictures and women