A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema

, by Bean, Jennifer M.; Negra, Diane; Hastie, Amelie (CON); Gaines, Jane M. (CON)

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ISBN: 9780822329992 | 0822329999
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 11/1/2002

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"This collection is a persuasive reminder that the hottest current topics in film theory--cultural intersections, questions of authorship, fantasy and technology, representation and the body--demand and are illuminated by feminist inquiry."-- Linda Mizejewski, author of "Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema"

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction: Toward a Feminist Historiography of Early Cinema

(28)

Jennifer M. Bean

I Reflecting Film Authorship

Circuits of Memory and History: The Memoirs of Alice Guy-Blache

(31)

Amelie Hastie

Nazimova's Veils: Salome at the Intersection of Film Histories

(28)

Patricia White

Of Cabbages and Authors

(31)

Jane M. Gaines

Reevaluating Footnotes: Women Directors of the Silent Era

119

(22)

Radha Vatsal

II Ways of Looking

The Gender of Empire: American Modernity, Masculinity, and Edison's War Actualities

141

(25)

Kristen Whissel

Making Ends Meet: ``Welfare Films'' and the Politics of Consumption during the Progressive Era

166

(29)

Constance Balides

Irma Vep, Vamp in the City: Mapping the Criminal Feminine in Early French Serials

195

(26)

Kristine J. Butler

The Flapper Film: Comedy, Dance, and Jazz Age Kinaesthetics

221

(30)

Lori Landay

III Cultural Inversions

The Queer Career of Jim Crow: Racial and Sexual Transformation in A Florida Enchantment

251

(19)

Siobhan B. Somerville

Taking Precautions, or Regulating Early Birth-Control Films

270

(28)

Shelley Stamp

The New Woman and Consumer Culture: Cecil B. Demille's Sex Comedies

298

(35)

Sumiko Higashi

``So Real as to Seem Like Life Itself'': The Photoplay Fiction of Adela Rogers St. Johns

333

(16)

Anne Morey

IV Performing Bodies

Oh, ``Doll Divine'': Mary Pickford, Masquerade, and the Pedophilic Gaze

349

(25)

Gaylyn Studlar

Immigrant Stardom in Imperial America: Pola Negri and the Problem of Typology

374

(30)

Diane Negra

Technologies of Early Stardom and the Extraordinary Body

404

(40)

Jennifer M. Bean

Femininity in Flight: Androgyny and Gynandry in Early Silent Italian Cinema

444

(32)

Angela Dalle Vacche

Greta Garbo and Silent Cinema: The Actress as Art Deco Icon

476

(25)

Lucy Fischer

V The Problem with Periodization

An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: The Actress as Vernacular Embodiment in Early Chinese Film Culture

501

(29)

Zhang Zhen

Technology's Body: Cinematic Vision in Modernity

530

(22)

Mary ann Doane

Parallax Historiography: The Flaneuse as Cyberfeminist

552

(19)

Catherine Russell

Contributors

571

(4)

Index

575

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A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema

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