"A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema" marks a new era of feminist
film scholarship. The twenty essays collected here demonstrate how
feminist historiographies at once alter and enrich ongoing debates
over visuality and identification, authorship, stardom, and
nationalist ideologies in cinema and media studies. Drawing
extensively on archival research, the collection yields startling
accounts of women's multiple roles as early producers, directors,
writers, stars, and viewers. It also engages urgent questions about
cinema's capacity for presenting a stable visual field, often at
the expense of racially, sexually, or class-marked bodies.
While fostering new ways of thinking about film history, " A
Feminist Reader in Early Cinema" illuminates the many questions
that the concept of "early cinema" itself raises about the relation
of gender to modernism, representation, and technologies of the
body. The contributors bring a number of disciplinary frameworks to
bear, including not only film studies but also postcolonial
studies, dance scholarship, literary analysis, philosophies of the
body, and theories regarding modernism and postmodernism.
Reflecting the stimulating diversity of early cinematic styles,
technologies, and narrative forms, essays address a range of
topics--from the dangerous sexuality of the urban" flaneuse" to the
childlike femininity exemplified by Mary Pickford, from the
Shanghai film industry to Italian diva films--looking along the way
at birth-control sensation films, French crime serials, "war
actualities," and the stylistic influence of art deco. Recurring
throughout the volume is the protean figure of the New Woman,
alternately garbed as childish tomboy, athletic star, enigmatic
vamp, languid diva, working girl, kinetic flapper, and primitive
exotic.
"Contributors." Constance Balides, Jennifer M. Bean, Kristine
Butler, Mary Ann Doane, Lucy Fischer, Jane Gaines, Amelie Hastie,
Sumiko Higashi, Lori Landay, Anne Morey, Diane Negra, Catherine
Russell, Siobhan B. Somerville, Shelley Stamp, Gaylyn Studlar,
Angela Dalle Vacche, Radha Vatsal, Kristen Whissel, Patricia White,
Zhang Zhen
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