Contributor
Bean, Jennifer M., 1968-
Imprint:Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
Descriptionvi, 584 p. : illus. ; 25 cm.
Note:Circuits of memory and history: The Memoirs of Alice Guy-Blaché / Amelie Hastie. - Nazimova's veils: Salome at the intersection of film histories / Paricia White. - Of cabbages and authors / Jane M. Gaines. - Reevaluating footnotes: women directors of the silent era / Radha Vatsal. - 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. - 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 Rogers St. Johns / Anne Morey. - Oh, "Doll Divine": Mary Pickford, masquerade, and the pedopilic 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. - 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 flâneuse as cyberfeminist / Catherine Russell.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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