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Silent Feminists » (REV)
Authors: Anthony Slide
ISBN-13: 9780810830530, ISBN-10: 0810830531
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: June 1996
Edition: REV
Author Biography: Anthony Slide
Book Synopsis
Documents the lives and careers of America's first women directors and provides an introduction to the subject of women in the American silent-film industry.
Feminst Collections
Slide gives voice to, contextualizes, and documents the lives and accomplishments of these no-longer-silent feminists..
Table of Contents
| Introduction: Rediscovering America's First Women Directors | ||
| 1 | Women and the American Silent Film Industry | 1 |
| 2 | Alice Guy Blache | 15 |
| 3 | Lois Weber | 29 |
| 4 | The Universal Women | 41 |
| 5 | Vitagraph's Women Directors | 61 |
| 6 | Margery Wilson | 71 |
| 7 | Mrs. Wallace Reid | 83 |
| 8 | Frances Marion | 97 |
| 9 | Dorothy Arzner | 103 |
| 10 | An Ever-Increasing Number | 117 |
| Appendix A | "Woman's Place in Photoplay Production" | 139 |
| Appendix B | "The Motion Picture Director" | 143 |
| Bibliography | 147 | |
| Index | 153 |
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