Women filmmakers in early Hollywood / Karen Ward Mahar.
Women filmmakers in early Hollywood / Karen Ward Mahar.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006.
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N791.43028/360
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English
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Physical content
x, 291 p., [26] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction : making movies and incorporating gender -- Prologue : "the greatest electrical novelty in the world" : gender and filmmaking before the turn of the century -- Pt. 1. Expansion, stardom & uplift : women enter the American movie industry, 1908-1916 -- Ch. 1. A quiet invasion : nickelodeo...
Ch. 7. "Doing a 'man's work'" : the rise of the studio system and the remasculinization of filmmaking -- Epilogue : getting away with it.
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Publisher
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006.
Place of Publication
Maryland
Date Published
c2006.
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"This book explores when, how, and why women were accepted as filmmakers in the 1910s and why, by the 1920s, those opportunities had disappeared. In looking at the early film industry as an industry - a place of work - Karen Mahar not only unravels the mystery of the disappearing female filmmaker but untangles the complicated relationship among gen...
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Women filmmakers in early Hollywood / Karen Ward Mahar.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-276) and index.
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c2006.
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N791.43028/360
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74VKJ6a6Ed8Z
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ISBN
0801884365 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801884368 (hardcover : alk. paper)
DDC
791.43028092273 B
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991022106669702626
