Pink-slipped
Subtitle: what happened to women in the silent film industries?
By: Jane M. Gaines
Series: Women and film history international; Women and film history international
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780252083433; 9780252041815
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry; Silent films; Motion pictures and women; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-295) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : what Gertrude Stein wonders about historians; title: What happened to women in the silent U.S. film industry?; title: Where was Antonia Dickson? : the peculiarity of historical time; title: More fictions : did Alice Guy Blaché make La fée aux choux (The cabbage fairy)?; title: Object lessons : the ideology of historical loss and restoration; title: The melodrama theory of historical time; title: Are they "just like us"?; title: Working in the dream factory; title: The world export of the "voice of the home"; title: Conclusion : women made redundant.