| Description |
1 online resource (x, 291 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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Studies in Industry and Society |
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Studies in industry and society
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| Contents |
Preface; INTRODUCTION: Making Movies and Incorporating Gender; PROLOGUE: "The Greatest Electrical Novelty in the World": Gender and Filmmaking before the Turn of the Century; PART ONE: EXPANSION, STARDOM & UPLIFT: Women Enter the American Movie Industry, 1908-1916; CHAPTER ONE: A Quiet Invasion: Nickelodeons, Narratives, and the First Women in Film; CHAPTER TWO: "To Get Some of the 'Good Gravy' " for Themselves: Stardom, Features, and the First Star-Producers; CHAPTER THREE: "So Much More Natural to a Woman": Gender, Uplift, and the Woman Filmmaker |
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INTERLUDE: WOMEN IN SERIALS & SHORT COMEDIES, 1912-1922CHAPTER FOUR: The "Girls Who Play": The Short Film and the New Woman; PART TWO: "A BUSINESS PURE & SIMPLE" The End of Uplift and the Masculinization of Hollywood, 1916-1928; CHAPTER FIVE: "The Real Punches": Lois Weber, Cecil B. DeMille, and the End of the Uplift Movement; CHAPTER SIX: A " 'Her-Own-Company' Epidemic": Stars as Independent Producers; CHAPTER SEVEN: ""Doing a 'Man's Work' "": The Rise of the Studio System and the Remasculinization of Filmmaking; EPILOGUE: Getting Away with It; Notes; Essay on Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E |
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FG; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Illustrations |
| Summary |
"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 gender, work culture, and business within modern industrial organizations." "Mahar's study integrates feminist methodologies of examining the gendering of work with thorough historical scholarship of American industry and business culture. Tracing the transformation of the film industry into a legitimate "big business" of the 1920s and explaining the fate of the female filmmaker during the silent era, Mahar demonstrates how industrial growth and change can unexpectedly open - and close - opportunities for women."--Jacket |
| Analysis |
"Multi-User" |
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OldControl:muse9781421402093 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-276) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures and women -- United States
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Women in motion pictures.
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Women in the motion picture industry -- United States
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Motion pictures and women
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Women in motion pictures
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Women in the motion picture industry
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Weibliche Filmschaffende
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Filmregisseurin
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Frau -- Film -- USA -- Geschichte 1900-1945.
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Film -- Frau -- USA -- Geschichte 1900-1945.
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Filmregisseurin -- USA -- Geschichte 1900-1945.
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Filmschaffende -- Frau -- USA -- Hollywood -- Geschichte -- 1910-1930.
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United States
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USA
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Hollywood -- Filmschaffende -- Frau -- Geschichte -- 1910-1930.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781421402093 |
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1421402092 |
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0801884365 |
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9780801884368 |
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