Bean / Negra A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8384-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 592 Seiten

Reihe: A Camera Obscura Book

The first anthology in a rapidly expanding area of cinema studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bean, Jennifer M.

Negra, Diane

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hastie, Amelie

Gaines, Jane M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Toward a Feminist Historiography of Early Cinema / Jennifer M. Bean 1

I. Reflecting Film Authorship

Circuits of Memory and History: The Memoirs of Alice Guy-Blache / Amelie Hastie 29

Nazimova's Veils: Salome at the Intersection of Film Histories / Patricia White 60

Of Cabbages and Authors / Jane M. Gaines 88

Reevaluating Footnotes: Women Directors of the Silent Era / Radha Vatsal 119

II. Ways of Looking

The Gender of Empire: American Modernity, Masculinity, and Edison's War Actualities / Kristen Whissel 141

Making Ends Meet: "Welfare Films" and the Politics of Consumption during the Progressive Era / Constance Balides 166

Irma Vep, Vamp in the City: Mapping the Criminal Feminine in Early French Serials / Kristine J. Butler 195

The Flapper Film: Comedy, Dance, and Jazz Age Kinaesthetics / Lori Landay 221

III. Cultural Inversions

The Queer Career of Jim Crow: Racial and Sexual Transformation in A Florida Enchantment / Siobhan B. Somerville 251

Taking Precautions, or Regulating Early Birth-Control Films / Shelley Stamp 270

The New Woman and Consumer Culture: Cecil B. DeMille's Sex Comedies / Sumiko Higashi 298

"So Real as to Seem Like Life Itself": The Photoplay Fiction of Adela Rogers St. Johns / Anne Morey 333

IV. Performing Bodies

Oh, "Doll Divine": Mary Pickford, Masquerade, and the Pedophilic Gaze / Gaylyn Studlar 349

Immigrant Stardom in Imperial America: Pola Negri and the Problem of Typology / Diane Negra 374

Technologies of early Stardom and the Extraordinary Body / Jennifer M. Bean 404

Femininity in Flight: Androgyny and Gynandry in Early Silent Italian Cinema / Angela Dalle Vacche 444

Greta Garbo and Silent Cinema: The Actress as Art Deco Icon / Lucy Fischer 476

V. The Problem with Periodization

An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: The Actress as Vernacular Embodiment in Early Chinese Film Culture / Zhang Zhen 501

Technology's Body: Cinematic Vision in Modernity / Mary Ann Doane 530

Parallax Historiography: The Flaneuse as Cyberfeminist / Catherine Russell 552

Contributors 571

Index 575

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer M. Bean is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies at the University of Washington.Diane Negra is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia.