num_pages: 634
description: Examine women’s contributions to filmin front of the camera and behind it!An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American 1895-1930 is an A-to-Z reference guide (illustrated with over 150 hard-to-find photographs!) that dispels the myth that men dominated the film industry during its formative years. Denise Lowe, author of Women and American An Encyclopedia, presents a rich collection that profiles many of the women who were crucial to the development of cinema as an industryand as an art form. Whether working behind the scenes as producers or publicists, behind the cameras as writers, directors, or editors, or in front of the lens as flappers, vamps, or serial queens, hundreds of women made profound and lasting contributions to the evolution of the motion picture production.An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American 1895-1930 gives you immediate access to the histories of many of the women who pioneered the early days of cinemaon screen and off. The book chronicles the well-known figures of the era, such as Alice Guy, Mary Pickford, and Francis Marion but gives equal billing to those who worked in anonymity as the industry moved from the silent era into the age of sound. Their individual stories of professional success and failure, artistic struggle and strife, and personal triumph and tragedy fill in the plot points missing from the complete saga of Hollywood’s beginnings.Pioneers of the motion picture business found in An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American 1895-1930 also includes comprehensive appendices of the WAMPAS Baby Stars, the silent stars remembered in the Graumann Chinese Theater Forecourt of the Stars and those immortalized on the Hollywood Walk of Stars. The book is invaluable as a resource for researchers, librarians, academics working in film, popular culture, and women’s history, and to anyone interested either professionally or casually in the early days of Hollywood and the motion picture industry.
language: English
title: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films
titlecomplete: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films
genres: Film, Reference
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Routledge