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Title

Silent women : pioneers of cinema / edited by Melody Bridges and Cheryl Robson.

Publication

Twickenham : Supernova Books, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bridges, Melody
• Robson, Cheryl

Description

311 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 20 cm

Summary

It now emerges that more women were working at every level in the first 20 years of the film industry in the USA than at any point since. Early pioneers, such as Alice Guy Blach , directed hundreds of films, invented techniques, ran businesses and set up distribution but with the rise of the male-dominated studio system, their significant contribution to the dawn of the movies has long been forgotten. With chapters on the writers, directors, producers, stars, film editors, designers and camera women of the silent era this book acknowledges and celebrates the many talented women who were significantly involved in the rise of the industry and explains why the coming of the talkies and big business led to the inequality which exists today.

Subject

• Women in the motion picture industry
• Glass ceiling (Employment discrimination)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreward / Bryony Dixon -- Introduction / Melody Bridges and Cheryl Robson -- Girl from God's country: the history of women in film and other war stories / Karen Day -- Early African-American female filmmakers / Aimee Dixon Anthony -- The silent producer: women filmmakers who creatively controlled the silent era of cinema / Pieter Aquilia -- Women were writing: beyond melodrama and hot house romances / Patricia Di Risio -- Doing it all: women's on- and off-screen contributions to European silent film / Julie K. Allen -- Female legends of the silver screen / Melody Bridges -- Directors from the dawn of Hollywood / Francesca Stephens -- Interview with director Dorothy Arzner / Kevin Brownlow -- Women film editors from silent to sound / Tania Field -- Who was the first female cinematographer in the world? / Ellen Cheshire -- When the woman shoots: ladies behind the silent horror film camera / K. Charlie Oughton -- Critics, reformers and educators: film culture as a feminine sphere / Shelley Stamp -- U.S. women directors: the road ahead / Maria Giese.

ISBN

• 9780956632999
• 0956632998

OCLC

• 907660897
• SCSB-10773939

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library