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A feminist reader in early cinema
- Title
- A feminist reader in early cinema / edited by Jennifer M. Bean and Diane Negra.
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- vi, 584 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Camera obscura book
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Circuits of memory and history: The memoirs of Alice Guy-Blaché / 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.
- Call Number
- MFL 08-5680
- ISBN
- 0822330253 (hard : acid-free paper)
- 9780822330257 (hard : acid-free paper)
- 0822329999 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 9780822329992 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2002007087
- OCLC
- 49773721
- Title
- A feminist reader in early cinema / edited by Jennifer M. Bean and Diane Negra.
- Imprint
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
- Series
- Camera obscura book
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Bean, Jennifer M., 1968-Negra, Diane, 1966-
- Research Call Number
- MFL 08-5680