Women's Media History Now! – serie
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26 produkter
Seeing Sarah Bernhardt
Performance and Silent Film
Inbunden, 2015
1245 kr
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The most famous stage actress of the nineteenth century, Sarah Bernhardt enjoyed a surprising renaissance when the 1912 multi-reel film Queen Elizabeth vaulted her to international acclaim. The triumph capped her already lengthy involvement with cinema while enabling the indefatigable actress to …
Doing Women's Film History
Reframing Cinemas, Past and Future
Av Christine Gledhill, Julia Knight
Inbunden, 2015
1245 kr
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Research into and around women's participation in cinematic history has enjoyed dynamic growth over the past decade. A broadening of scope and interests encompasses not only different kinds of filmmaking--mainstream fiction, experimental, and documentary--but also practices--publicity, journalism, …
Pink-Slipped
What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?
Inbunden, 2018
1414 kr
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Women held more positions of power in the silent film era than at any other time in American motion picture history. Marion Leonard broke from acting to cofound a feature film company. Gene Gauntier, the face of Kalem Films, also wrote the first script of Ben-Hur. Helen Holmes choreographed her own …
Queer Timing
The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema
Av Susan Potter
Inbunden, 2019
1245 kr
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John Leo and Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-Authored or Edited Book in LGBTQ Studies, Popular Culture Association (PCA), 2020In Queer Timing, Susan Potter offers a counter-history that reorients accepted views of lesbian representation and spectatorship in early cinema. …
Subject to Reality
Women and Documentary Film
Inbunden, 2019
1245 kr
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Revolutionary thinking around gender and race merged with new film technologies to usher in a wave of women's documentaries in the 1970s. Driven by the various promises of second-wave feminism, activist filmmakers believed authentic stories about women would bring more people into an imminent …
Movie Mavens
US Newspaper Women Take on the Movies, 1914-1923
Av Richard Abel
Inbunden, 2021
1245 kr
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During the early era of cinema, moviegoers turned to women editors and writers for the latest on everyone's favorite stars, films, and filmmakers. Richard Abel returns these women to film history with an anthology of reviews, articles, and other works. Drawn from newspapers of the time, the …
Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck
Twenty-Six Short Essays on a Working Star
Inbunden, 2023
1501 kr
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From The Lady Eve, to The Big Valley, Barbara Stanwyck played parts that showcased her multidimensional talents but also illustrated the limits imposed on women in film and television. Catherine Russell’s A to Z consideration of the iconic actress analyzes twenty-six facets of Stanwyck and the …
Women's Transborder Cinema
Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia
Inbunden, 2024
1456 kr
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Can we write women’s authorial roles into the history of industrial cinema in South Asia? How can we understand women’s creative authority and access to the film business infrastructure in this postcolonial region? Esha Niyogi De draws on rare archival and oral sources to explore these questions …
Women in Hollywood's Dream Factory
Tales of Inequality, Abuse, and Resistance
Inbunden, 2026
1456 kr
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Analyzing and challenging the film industry’s infamous treatment of womenThe #MeToo revelations put a twenty-first-century stamp on the age-old story of women’s mistreatment in Hollywood. Karen McNally edits a collection focused on examining and revising film history in the aftermath of the women’s …
Great Big Girl Like Me
The Films of Marie Dressler
Häftad, 2009
351 kr
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In this study of Marie Dressler, MGM's most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler's use of her body to challenge Hollywood's standards for leading ladies. At five feet seven inches tall and two hundred pounds, Dressler was never considered the popular …
Uncanny Gaze
The Drama of Early German Cinema
Häftad, 2010
426 kr
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Heide SchlÜpmann's classic study of early German cinema was published in German as Unheimlichkeit des Blicks: Das Drama des FrÜhen deutschen Kinos in 1990. For the first time in English, this translation makes available her feminist examination of German cinema and Germany in the sociopolitical …
Universal Women
Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood
Häftad, 2010
373 kr
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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011.Between 1912 and 1919, the Universal Film Manufacturing Company credited eleven women with directing at least 170 films, but by the mid-1920s all of these directors had left Universal and only one still worked in the film industry at all. Two generations of …
Germaine Dulac
A Cinema of Sensations
Häftad, 2014
411 kr
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Best known for directing the Impressionist classic The Smiling Madame Beudet and the first Surrealist film The Seashell and the Clergyman, Germaine Dulac, feminist and pioneer of 1920s French avant-garde cinema, made close to thirty fiction films as well as numerous documentaries and newsreels. …
Seeing Sarah Bernhardt
Performance and Silent Film
Häftad, 2015
387 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The most famous stage actress of the nineteenth century, Sarah Bernhardt enjoyed a surprising renaissance when the 1912 multi-reel film Queen Elizabeth vaulted her to international acclaim. The triumph capped her already lengthy involvement with cinema while enabling the indefatigable actress to …
Doing Women's Film History
Reframing Cinemas, Past and Future
Av Christine Gledhill, Julia Knight
Häftad, 2015
359 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Research into and around women's participation in cinematic history has enjoyed dynamic growth over the past decade. A broadening of scope and interests encompasses not only different kinds of filmmaking--mainstream fiction, experimental, and documentary--but also practices--publicity, journalism, …
Pink-Slipped
What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?
Häftad, 2018
365 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Women held more positions of power in the silent film era than at any other time in American motion picture history. Marion Leonard broke from acting to cofound a feature film company. Gene Gauntier, the face of Kalem Films, also wrote the first script of Ben-Hur. Helen Holmes choreographed her own …
Queer Timing
The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema
Av Susan Potter
Häftad, 2019
359 kr
Lägg i varukorg
John Leo and Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-Authored or Edited Book in LGBTQ Studies, Popular Culture Association (PCA), 2020In Queer Timing, Susan Potter offers a counter-history that reorients accepted views of lesbian representation and spectatorship in early cinema. …
Subject to Reality
Women and Documentary Film
Häftad, 2019
259 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Revolutionary thinking around gender and race merged with new film technologies to usher in a wave of women's documentaries in the 1970s. Driven by the various promises of second-wave feminism, activist filmmakers believed authentic stories about women would bring more people into an imminent …
Movie Mavens
US Newspaper Women Take on the Movies, 1914-1923
Av Richard Abel
Häftad, 2021
359 kr
Lägg i varukorg
During the early era of cinema, moviegoers turned to women editors and writers for the latest on everyone's favorite stars, films, and filmmakers. Richard Abel returns these women to film history with an anthology of reviews, articles, and other works. Drawn from newspapers of the time, the …
Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck
Twenty-Six Short Essays on a Working Star
Häftad, 2023
387 kr
Lägg i varukorg
From The Lady Eve, to The Big Valley, Barbara Stanwyck played parts that showcased her multidimensional talents but also illustrated the limits imposed on women in film and television. Catherine Russell’s A to Z consideration of the iconic actress analyzes twenty-six facets of Stanwyck and the …
Women's Transborder Cinema
Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia
Häftad, 2024
398 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Can we write women’s authorial roles into the history of industrial cinema in South Asia? How can we understand women’s creative authority and access to the film business infrastructure in this postcolonial region? Esha Niyogi De draws on rare archival and oral sources to explore these questions …
Women in Hollywood's Dream Factory
Tales of Inequality, Abuse, and Resistance
Häftad, 2026
355 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Analyzing and challenging the film industry’s infamous treatment of womenThe #MeToo revelations put a twenty-first-century stamp on the age-old story of women’s mistreatment in Hollywood. Karen McNally edits a collection focused on examining and revising film history in the aftermath of the women’s …
Seeing Sarah Bernhardt
Performance and Silent Film
E-bok, 2015
568 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The most famous stage actress of the nineteenth century, Sarah Bernhardt enjoyed a surprising renaissance when the 1912 multi-reel film Queen Elizabeth vaulted her to international acclaim. The triumph capped her already lengthy involvement with cinema while enabling the indefatigable actress to …
Uncanny Gaze
The Drama of Early German Cinema
Inbunden, 2010
1501 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Heide SchlÜpmann's classic study of early German cinema was published in German as Unheimlichkeit des Blicks: Das Drama des FrÜhen deutschen Kinos in 1990. For the first time in English, this translation makes available her feminist examination of German cinema and Germany in the sociopolitical …
Great Big Girl Like Me
The Films of Marie Dressler
Inbunden, 2009
1322 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In this study of Marie Dressler, MGM's most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler's use of her body to challenge Hollywood's standards for leading ladies. At five feet seven inches tall and two hundred pounds, Dressler was never considered the popular …
Germaine Dulac
A Cinema of Sensations
Inbunden, 2014
1322 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Best known for directing the Impressionist classic The Smiling Madame Beudet and the first Surrealist film The Seashell and the Clergyman, Germaine Dulac, feminist and pioneer of 1920s French avant-garde cinema, made close to thirty fiction films as well as numerous documentaries and newsreels. …
