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Lois Weber - Interviews (Hardcover)
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Lois Weber - Interviews (Hardcover)
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series
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Lois Weber (1879-1939) was one of early Hollywood's most successful
screenwriter-directors. A one-time Church Army worker who preached
from street corners, Weber began working in the American film
industry as an actress around 1908 but quickly ascended to the
positions of screenwriter and director. She wrote, directed,
starred in, edited, and titled hundreds of movies during her career
and is believed to be the first woman to direct a feature film. At
the height of her influence, Weber used her medium to address
pressing social issues such as birth control, abortion, capital
punishment, poverty, and drug abuse. She gained international fame
in 1915 with her controversial Hypocrites, a complex film that
featured full female nudity as part of its important moral lesson.
Her most famous film, Where Are My Children?, was the Universal
studio's biggest box-office hit the following year and played to
enthusiastic audiences around the globe. These productions and many
others contributed to her standing as a truly world-class
filmmaker. Despite her many successes, Weber was pushed out of the
business in the 1930s as a result of Hollywood's institutionalized
sexism. Shoved into the corners of film history, she remained a
largely forgotten figure for decades. Lois Weber: Interviews
restores her long-muted voice by reprinting more than sixty items
in which she expressed her views on a range of filmic subjects. The
volume includes interviews, articles that Weber wrote, the text of
a speech she gave, and reconstructed conversations with her
Hollywood coworkers. Lois Weber: Interviews provides key insights
into one of our first great writer-directors, her many films, and
the changing business in which she worked.
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