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Authors: Jennifer M. Bean (Editor), Diane Negra (Editor), Amelie Hastie (Contribution by), Jane M. Gaines
ISBN-13: 9780822329992, ISBN-10: 0822329999
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date Published: September 2003
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Jennifer M. Bean

Jennifer M. Bean is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies at the University of Washington.

Diane Negra is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia.

Book Synopsis

The first anthology in a rapidly expanding area of cinema studies.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Toward a Feminist Historiography of Early Cinema	1
I	Reflecting Film Authorship
	Circuits of Memory and History: The Memoirs of Alice Guy-Blache	29
	Nazimova's Veils: Salome at the Intersection of Film Histories	60
	Of Cabbages and Authors	88
	Reevaluating Footnotes: Women Directors of the Silent Era	119
II	Ways of Looking
	The Gender of Empire: American Modernity, Masculinity, and Edison's War Actualities	141
	Making Ends Meet: "Welfare Films" and the Politics of Consumption during the Progressive Era	166
	Irma Vep, Vamp in the City: Mapping the Criminal Feminine in Early French Serials	195
	The Flapper Film: Comedy, Dance, and Jazz Age Kinaesthetics	221
III	Cultural Inversions
	The Queer Career of Jim Crow: Racial and Sexual Transformation in A Florida Enchantment	251
	Taking Precautions, or Regulating Early Birth Control Films	270
	The New Woman and Consumer Culture: Cecil B. DeMille's Sex Comedies	298
	"So Real as to Seem Like Life Itself": The Photoplay Fiction of Adela Roger St. Johns	333
IV	Performing Bodies
	Oh, "Doll Divine": Mary Pickford, Masquerade, and the Pedophilic Gaze	349
	Immigrant Stardom in Imperial America: Pola Negri and the Problem of Typology	374
	Technologies of Early Stardom and the Extraordinary Body	404
	Femininity in Flight: Androgyny and Gynandry in Early Silent Italian Cinema	444
	Greta Garbo and Silent Cinema: The Actress as Art Deco Icon	476
V	The Problem with Periodization
	An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: The Actress as Vernacular Embodiment in Early Chinese Film Culture	501
	Technology's Body: Cinematic Vision in Modernity	530
	Parallax Historiography: The Flaneuse as Cyberfeminist	552
	Contributors	571
	Index	575

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