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Women filmmakers in early Hollywood / Karen Ward Mahar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mahar, Karen Ward, 1960- author.
- Series:
- Studies in industry and society.
- Studies in industry and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in the motion picture industry--United States.
- Women in the motion picture industry.
- Women in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures and women--United States.
- Motion pictures and women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (332 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Tracing the transformation of the film industry into a legitimate "big businessof 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.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION: Making Movies and Incorporating Gender
- PROLOGUE: "The Greatest Electrical Novelty in the World": Gender and Filmmaking before the Turn of the Century
- PART ONE: EXPANSION, STARDOM &
- UPLIFT: Women Enter the American Movie Industry, 1908-1916
- CHAPTER ONE: A Quiet Invasion: Nickelodeons, Narratives, and the First Women in Film
- CHAPTER TWO: "To Get Some of the 'Good Gravy' " for Themselves: Stardom, Features, and the First Star-Producers
- CHAPTER THREE: "So Much More Natural to a Woman": Gender, Uplift, and the Woman Filmmaker
- INTERLUDE: WOMEN IN SERIALS &
- SHORT COMEDIES, 1912-1922
- CHAPTER FOUR: The "Girls Who Play": The Short Film and the New Woman
- PART TWO: "A BUSINESS PURE &
- SIMPLE" The End of Uplift and the Masculinization of Hollywood, 1916-1928
- CHAPTER FIVE: "The Real Punches": Lois Weber, Cecil B. DeMille, and the End of the Uplift Movement
- CHAPTER SIX: A " 'Her-Own-Company' Epidemic": Stars as Independent Producers
- CHAPTER SEVEN: "Doing a 'Man's Work' ": The Rise of the Studio System and the Remasculinization of Filmmaking
- EPILOGUE: Getting Away with It
- Notes
- Essay on Sources
- Index
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- Illustrations.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-276) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-0209-2
- OCLC:
- 794701465
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