A feminist reader in early cinema
By: edited by Jennifer M. Bean and Diane Negra.
Contributors: Bean, Jennifer M., 1968-; Negra, Diane, 1966-
Series: A Camera obscura book
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780822330257; 9780822329992
Subjects: Women in motion pictures; Women in the motion picture industry; Feminism and motion pictures; Feminist film criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Circuits of memory and history: The memoirs of Alice Guy-Blaché / Amelie Hastie; title: Nazimova's veils: Salome at the intersection of film histories / Patricia White; title: Of cabbages and authors / Jane M. Gaines; title: Reevaluating footnotes: women directors of the silent era / Radha Vatsal; title: The gender of empire: American modernity, masculinity, and Edison's war actualities / Kristen Whissel; title: Making ends meet: "welfare films" and the politics of consumption during the progressive era / Constance Balides; title: Irma vep, vamp in the city: mapping the criminal feminine in early French serials / Kristine J. Butler; title: The flapper film: comedy, dance, and jazz age kinaesthetics / Lori Landay; title: The queer career of Jim Crow: racial and sexual transformation in a Florida enchantment / Siobhan B. Somerville; title: Taking precautions, or regulating early birth-control films / Shelley Stamp; title: The new woman and consumer culture: Cecil B. Demille's sex comedies / Sumiko Higashi; title: "So real as to seem like life itself": the photoplay fiction of Adela Rogers St. Johns / Anne Morey; title: Oh, "doll divine": Mary Pickford, masquerade, and the pedophilic gaze / Gaylyn Studlar; title: Immigrant stardom in imperial America: pola negri and the problem of typology / Diane Negra; title: Technologies of early stardom and the extraordinary body / Jennifer M. Bean; title: Femininity in flight: androgyny and gynandry in early silent Italian cinema / Angela Dalle Vacche; title: Greta Garbo and silent cinema: the actress as art deco icon / Lucy Fischer; title: An amorous history of the silver screen: the actress as vernacular embodiment in early Chinese film culture / Zhang Zhen; title: Technology's body: cinematic vision in modernity / Mary Ann Doane; title: Parallax historiography: the Flâneuse as cyberfeminist / Catherine Russell.