Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood (Studies in Industry and Society)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: October 10, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780801884368
Subjects: Cinema industry; Films, cinema; Women's studies; First World War, 1914-1918; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; History; Performing Arts; Women in motion pictures; Cinema/Film: Book; USA; Semiotics & Theory; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Women's Studies - History; History / United States / General; General; United States - General; Women's Studies - General; Motion pictures and women; United States; Women in the motion picture industry; Biography / Autobiography
Description: "This book explores when, how, and why women were accepted as filmmakers in the 1910s and why, by the 1920s, those opportunities had disappeared. In looking at the early film industry as an industry - a place of work - Karen Mahar not only unravels the mystery of the disappearing female filmmaker but untangles the complicated relationship among gender, work culture, and business within modern industrial organizations." "Mahar's study integrates feminist methodologies of examining the gendering of work with thorough historical scholarship of American industry and business culture. Tracing the transformation of the film industry into a legitimate "big business" of the 1920s and explaining the fate of the female filmmaker during the silent era, Mahar demonstrates how industrial growth and change can unexpectedly open - and close - opportunities for women."--Jacket.