Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: what Gertrude Stein wonders about historians
  • What happened to women in the silent U.S. film industry?
  • Where was Antonia Dickson? the peculiarity of historical time
  • More fictions: did Alice Guy Blaché make La fée aux choux (The cabbage fairy)?
  • Object lessons: the ideology of historical loss and restoration
  • The melodrama theory of historical time
  • Are they "just like us"?
  • Working in the dream factory
  • The world export of the "voice of the home"
  • Conclusion: women made redundant.