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Control # 1 2014031384
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20190911110851.0
Fixed Data 8 140808t20152015cau b 001 0 eng c
LC Card 10    $a 2014031384
ISBN 20    $a9780520241527 (cloth)
ISBN 20    $a0520241525 (cloth)
ISBN 20    $a9780520284463 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN 20    $a0520284461 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN 20    $z9780520960084 (ebook)
ISBN 20    $z0520960084 (ebook)
Obsolete 39    $a296078$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aCU-S/DLC$beng$erda$cCU-S$dDLC$dGCG
Authen. Ctr. 42    $apcc
LC Call 50 00 $aPN1998.3.W4$bS73 2015
Dewey Class 82 00 $a791.4302/33092$aB$223
ME:Pers Name 100 $aStamp, Shelley,$d1963-$eauthor.
Title 245 10 $aLois Weber in early Hollywood /$cShelley Stamp.
Tag 264 264  1 $aOakland, California :$bUniversity of California Press,$c[2015]
Tag 264 264  4 $cÃ2015
Phys Descrpt 300    $ax, 374 pages ;$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
Tag 336 336    $atext$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$2rdacarrier
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Note:Content 505 $aCreating a signature -- Life's mirror? : progressive films for a progressive era -- Women's labor, creative control and independence in a changing industry -- "Exit flapper, enter woman", or Weber in jazz age Hollywood.
Abstract 520    $a"Among early Hollywood's most brilliant filmmakers, Lois Weber was considered one of the era's 'three great minds' alongside D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille. Despite her accomplishments, Weber has been marginalized in relation to her contemporaries, who have long been recognized as fathers of American cinema. Drawing on a range of materials untapped by previous historians, Shelley Stamp offers the first comprehensive study of Weber's remarkable career as director, screenwriter, and actress. Lois Weber in Early Hollywood provides compelling evidence of the extraordinary role that women played in shaping American movie culture. Weber made films on capital punishment, contraception, poverty, and addiction, establishing early cinema's power to engage topical issues for popular audiences. Her work also grappled with the profound changes in women's lives that unsettled Americans at the beginning of the twentieth century, and her later films include sharp critiques of heterosexual marriage and consumer capitalism. Mentor to many women in the industry, Weber demanded a place at the table in early professional guilds, decrying the limited roles available for women on screen and in the 1920s protesting the growing climate of hostility toward female directors. Through her examination of Weber's career, Stamp demonstrates how female filmmakers who had played a part in early Hollywood's bid for respectability were in the end written out of that industry's history. Lois Weber in Early Hollywood is an essential addition to histories of silent cinema, early filmmaking in Los Angeles, and women's contributions to American culture."--Provided by publisher.
Subj:Pers 600 10 $aWeber, Lois,$d1879-1939.
Subj:Pers 600 10 $aWeber, Lois,$d1879-1939$xCriticism and interpretation.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aMotion picture producers and directors$vBiography.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aWomen motion picture producers and directors$zUnited States.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aWomen in the motion picture industry$zUnited States.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aSilent films$xHistory.