Women held more positions of power in the silent film era than at
any other time in American motion picture history. Marion Leonard
broke from acting to cofound a feature film company. Gene Gauntier,
the face of Kalem Films, also wrote the first script of Ben-Hur.
Helen Holmes choreographed her own breathtaking on-camera stunt
work. Yet they and the other pioneering filmmaking women vanished
from memory. Using individual careers as a point of departure, Jane
M. Gaines charts how women first fell out of the limelight and then
out of the film history itself. A more perplexing event cemented
their obscurity: the failure of 1970s feminist historiography to
rediscover them. Gaines examines how it happened against a backdrop
of feminist theory and her own meditation on the limits that
historiography imposes on scholars. Pondering how silent era women
have become absent in the abstract while present in reality, Gaines
sees a need for a theory of these artists' pasts that relates their
aspirations to those of contemporary women. A bold journey through
history and memory, Pink-Slipped pursues the still-elusive fate of
the influential women in the early years of film.
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