Shelley Stamp is author of Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon; coeditor of American Cinema's Transitional Era: Audiences, Institutions, Practices; and founding editor of Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal. She is Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

"A recommended work of early film scholarship... Lois Weber in Early Hollywood stands as one of the better filmmaker studies in recent years."

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Portrait of a Filmmaker 1. Creating a Signature 2. "Life's Mirror": Progressive Films for a Progressive Era 3. Women's Labor, Creative Control, and "Independence" in a Changing Industry 4. "Exit Flapper, Enter Woman"; or, Weber in Jazz Age Hollywood Conclusion: "Forgotten with a Vengeance" Notes Filmography Index

Shelley Stamp is author of Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon; coeditor of American Cinema's Transitional Era: Audiences, Institutions, Practices; and founding editor of Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal. She is Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

"A recommended work of early film scholarship... Lois Weber in Early Hollywood stands as one of the better filmmaker studies in recent years."

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Portrait of a Filmmaker 1. Creating a Signature 2. "Life's Mirror": Progressive Films for a Progressive Era 3. Women's Labor, Creative Control, and "Independence" in a Changing Industry 4. "Exit Flapper, Enter Woman"; or, Weber in Jazz Age Hollywood Conclusion: "Forgotten with a Vengeance" Notes Filmography Index

Shelley Stamp is author of Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon; coeditor of American Cinema's Transitional Era: Audiences, Institutions, Practices; and founding editor of Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal. She is Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

"A recommended work of early film scholarship... Lois Weber in Early Hollywood stands as one of the better filmmaker studies in recent years."

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Portrait of a Filmmaker 1. Creating a Signature 2. "Life's Mirror": Progressive Films for a Progressive Era 3. Women's Labor, Creative Control, and "Independence" in a Changing Industry 4. "Exit Flapper, Enter Woman"; or, Weber in Jazz Age Hollywood Conclusion: "Forgotten with a Vengeance" Notes Filmography Index