Examine women's contributions to filmin front of the camera and
behind it! An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American
Films: 1895-1930 is an A-to-Z reference guide (illustrated with
over 150 hard-to-find photographs!) that dispels the myth that men
dominated the film industry during its formative years. Denise
Lowe, author of Women and American Television: An Encyclopedia,
presents a rich collection that profiles many of the women who were
crucial to the development of cinema as an industryand as an art
form. Whether working behind the scenes as producers or publicists,
behind the cameras as writers, directors, or editors, or in front
of the lens as flappers, vamps, or serial queens, hundreds of women
made profound and lasting contributions to the evolution of the
motion picture production. An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in
Early American Films: 1895-1930 gives you immediate access to the
histories of many of the women who pioneered the early days of
cinemaon screen and off. The book chronicles the well-known figures
of the era, such as Alice Guy, Mary Pickford, and Francis Marion
but gives equal billing to those who worked in anonymity as the
industry moved from the silent era into the age of sound. Their
individual stories of professional success and failure, artistic
struggle and strife, and personal triumph and tragedy fill in the
plot points missing from the complete saga of Hollywood's
beginnings. Pioneers of the motion picture business found in An
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films include:
Dorothy Arnzer, the first woman to join the Directors Guild of
America and the only female director to make a successful
transition from silent films to sound Jane Murfin, playwright and
screenwriter who became supervisor of motion pictures at RKO
Studios Gene Gauntier, the actress and scenarist whose adaptation
of Ben Hur for the Kalem Film Company led to a landmark copyright
infringement case Theda Bara, whose on-screen popularity virtually
built Fox Studios before typecasting and overexposure destroyed her
career Madame Sul-Te-Wan, nee Nellie Conley, the first
African-American actor or actress to sign a film contract and be a
featured performer Dorothy Davenport, who parlayed the publicity
surrounding her actor-husband's drug-related death into a career as
a producer of social reform melodramas Lois Weber, a street-corner
evangelist who became one of the best-known and highest-paid
directors in Hollywood Lina Basquette, the Screen Tragedy Girl who
married and divorced studio mogul Sam Warner, led The Hollywood
Aristocrats Orchestra, claimed to have been a spy for the American
Office of Strategic Services during World War II, and became a
renowned dog expert in her later years and many more! An
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930
also includes comprehensive appendices of the WAMPAS Baby Stars,
the silent stars remembered in the Graumann Chinese Theater
Forecourt of the Stars and those immortalized on the Hollywood Walk
of Stars. The book is invaluable as a resource for researchers,
librarians, academics working in film, popular culture, and women's
history, and to anyone interested either professionally or casually
in the early days of Hollywood and the motion picture industry.
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