A feminist reader in early cinema

A feminist reader in early cinema [electronic resource] / edited by Jennifer M. Bean and Diane Negra.

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The first anthology in a rapidly expanding area of cinema studies.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via Duke)
Other Authors: Bean, Jennifer M., 1968-, Negra, Diane, 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
Series:Camera obscura book.
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:
Women in motion pictures.
Women in the motion picture industry.
Feminism and motion pictures.
Feminist film criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Circuits of memory and history: The memoirs of Alice Guy-BlachĂ© / 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
  • The 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
  • The flapper film: comedy, dance, and jazz age kinaesthetics / Lori Landay
  • The 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
  • The 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
  • An 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.

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