A feminist reader in early cinema / edited by Jennifer M. Bean and Diane Negra.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Toward a Feminist Historiography of Early Cinema / Jennifer M. Bean
- I. Reflecting Film Authorship. Circuits of Memory and History: The Memoirs of Alice Guy-Blache / 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
- II. Ways of Looking. 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
- III. Cultural Inversions. 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 Roger St. Johns / Anne Morey
- IV. Performing Bodies. 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
- V. The Problem with Periodization. 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 Flaneuse as Cyberfeminist / Catherine Russell.
