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arguments about film historiography
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Cleo Madison
criticism of women's film history
critique of feminist film historiography
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feminism and film
feminist film historiography
feminist film theory and silent era
Flora Finch
Florence Lawrence
Gene Gauntier
Helen Holmes
historical loss and film history
Hollywood
Kalem Films
Marion Leonard
melodrama theory
motion picture film history
silent cinema
silent film actresses
silent film era
silent film industry and women
silent film women executives
silent film women screenwriters
technological change and film
technological innovation and film
The Hazards of Helen
women and silent film
women and technological change in film
women and technology
women in the early film industry
women pioneers in film
women screenwriters
women silent film directors
women working in the silent film industry
working in silent film industry
world cinema
Product details
- ISBN 9780252083433
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 23 Feb 2018
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Jane M. Gaines is a professor of film at Columbia University. She is the award-winning author of Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law and Fire and Desire: Mixed Race Movies in the Silent Era.
