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Women filmmakers in early Hollywood /
"This book explores when, how, and why women were accepted as filmmakers in the 1910s and why, by the 1920s, those opportunities had disappeared. In looking at the early film industry as an industry - a place of work - Karen Mahar not only unravels the mystery of the disappearing female filmmak...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Studies in industry and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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, 1912-1922CHAPTER 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; A; B; C; D; E.
- FG; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Illustrations.