| Description |
vi, 584 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Camera obscura book
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Circuits of memory and history : The memoirs of Alice Guy-Blache / Amelie Hastie -- Nazimova's veils : Salome at the intersection of film histories / Patricia White -- Of cabbages and authors / Jane M. Gaines -- Reevaluating footnotes : women directors of the silent era / Radha Vatsal -- Gender of empire : American modernity, masculinity, and Edison's war actualities / Kristen Whissel -- Making ends meet : "welfare films" and the politics of consumption during the progressive era / Constance Balides -- Irma vep, vamp in the city : mapping the criminal feminine in early French serials / Kristine J. Butler -- Flapper film : comedy, dance, and jazz age kinaesthetics / Lori Landay -- Queer career of Jim Crow : racial and sexual transformation in a Florida enchantment / Siobhan B. Somerville -- Taking precautions, or regulating early birth-control films / Shelley Stamp -- New woman and consumer culture : Cecil B. Demille's sex comedies / Sumiko Higashi -- "So real as to seem like life itself" : the photoplay fiction of Adela Rogers St. Johns / Anne Morey -- Oh, "doll divine" : Mary Pickford, masquerade, and the pedophilic gaze / Gaylyn Studlar -- Immigrant stardom in imperial America : pola negri and the problem of typology / Diane Negra -- Technologies of early stardom and the extraordinary body / Jennifer M. Bean -- Femininity in flight : androgyny and gynandry in early silent Italian cinema / Angela Dalle Vacche -- Greta Garbo and silent cinema : the actress as art deco icon / Lucy Fischer -- Amorous history of the silver screen : the actress as vernacular embodiment in early Chinese film culture / Zhang Zhen -- Technology's body : cinematic vision in modernity / Mary Ann Doane -- Parallax historiography : the Flâneuse as cyberfeminist / Catherine Russell. |
| Subject |
Women in motion pictures.
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Women in the motion picture industry.
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Feminism and motion pictures.
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Feminist film criticism.
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| Added Author |
Bean, Jennifer M., 1968-
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Negra, Diane, 1966-
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| ISBN |
0822329999 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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0822330253 (hard : acid-free paper) |
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