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A feminist reader in early cinema / edited by Jennifer M. Bean and Diane Negra.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Camera obscura book.
- A Camera obscura book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in motion pictures.
- Women in the motion picture industry.
- Feminism and motion pictures.
- Feminist film criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (593 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2002]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The first anthology in a rapidly expanding area of cinema studies.
- 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
- 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 Flaneuse as cyberfeminist / Catherine Russell.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed July 24, 2022)
- ISBN:
- 0-8223-8384-5
- 1-283-06333-6
- 9786613063335
- OCLC:
- 1139398754
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