Lois Weber in Early Hollywood (Paperback)

Among early Hollywood's most renowned filmmakers, Lois Weber was considered one of the era's "three great minds" alongside D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille. Despite her accomplishments, Weber has been marginalized in relation to her contemporaries, long ensconced as fathers of American cinema. Drawing on a range of materials untapped by previous historians, Shelley Stamp offers the first comprehensive study of Weber's remarkable career as director, screenwriter and actress. "Lois Weber in Early Hollywood" provides compelling evidence of the extraordinary role that women played in shaping American movie culture. Weber made films on capital punishment, contraception, poverty and addiction, demonstrating early cinema's power to engage topical issues for popular audiences. Her work also grappled with the profound changes in women's lives that unsettled Americans at the beginning of the twentieth century and her later films include sharp critiques of heterosexual marriage and consumer capitalism. Weber mentored many women in the industry, demanded a place at the table in early professional guilds, decried limited roles available for women on screen, protested the growing climate of hostility towards female directors in the 1920s, and, in the final decade of her life, tried against all odds to ensure her own historical legacy. Through her examination of Weber's career, Stamp demonstrates how female filmmakers who once served early Hollywood's bid for respectability were written out of that industry's history in the end. "Lois Weber in Early Hollywood "is an essential addition to histories of silent cinema, early filmmaking in Los Angeles, and women's contributions to American culture.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2015
First published:	March 2015
Authors:	Shelley Stamp
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	384
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-28446-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Individual film directors, film-makers
LSN:	0-520-28446-1
Barcode:	9780520284463

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