Red Velvet Seat - Women's Writings on the First Fifty Years of Cinema (Paperback)

As viewers, actresses, directors and writers, women have always been central to cinema. However, evidence of their roles has until now remained scant and dispersed, eclipsed by historical opinion written by men. In magisterial scale, Red Velvet Seat restores women's film culture to center stage, using women's written accounts from the beginning of cinema up to 1950. Drawing on fashion and parenting magazines, newspapers and literary journals, memoirs and etiquette guides, and with contributors ranging from Virginia Woolf, Colette, and Rebecca West to psychoanalysts, poets, social reformers, labor organizers, film editors, screen beauties, and race activists, the volume displays the full scope of women's film culture. In each section, editor Antonia Lant with Ingrid Periz provides historical context and links archival accounts to major social and political movements. Comprehensive and absorbing, Red Velvet Seat is an invaluable contribution to the history of cinema.

General

Imprint:	Verso Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2006
First published:	December 2006
Editors:	Antonia Lant
Contributors:	Anita Loos • Betty Balfour • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • Djuna Barnes • Dorothy Richardson • Elizabeth Bowen • Emily Post • Fannie Hurst • Fredi Washington
Dimensions:	234 x 155 x 48mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	896
ISBN-13:	978-1-85984-722-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > Social forecasting, futurology
LSN:	1-85984-722-6
Barcode:	9781859847220

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