Go west, young women!
Subtitle: the rise of early Hollywood
By: Hilary A. Hallett
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780520274082; 9780520274099
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry; History; Motion pictures and women; Motion picture actors and actresses
Description: This book explores the role of women in the development of Los Angeles and the nascent film industry. From Mary Pickford's rise to become perhaps the most powerful woman of her age, to the racist moral panics of the post-World War I years that culminated in Hollywood's first sex scandal, the author describes how the path through early Hollywood presaged the struggles over modern gender roles that animated the century to come.--From back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: Along the road to Hollywood: landscapes "in motion-picture land". "Oh for a girl who could ride a horse like pearl white": the actress democratizes fame; title: Women-made women: writing the "movies" before Hollywood; title: Melodramas of Hollywood's birth: the postwar revolution in morals and manners, redux. Hollywood bohemia; title: The movie menace; title: A star is born: rereading Hollywood's first sex scandal; title: Conclusion: the girl from Hollywood.