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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Gaines, Jane (1946-....)
Titre(s) : Pink-slipped [Texte imprimé] : what happened to women in the silent film industries? / Jane M. Gaines
Publication : Urbana, [Illinois] ; Chicago, [Illinois] ; Springfield, [Colorado] : University of
Illinois press, 2018
Description matérielle : xii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection : Women and film history international
Lien à la collection : Women's media history now!
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-295) and index
"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 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."
Sujet(s) : Femmes dans l'industrie du cinéma
Cinéma -- 1895-1929
Féminisme et cinéma
Indice(s) Dewey :
384.808 2 (23e éd.) = Cinéma (industrie) - Étude en relation avec les femmes
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780252041815. - ISBN 025204181X. - ISBN 9780252083433. - ISBN 0252083431
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb454722172
Notice n° :
FRBNF45472217
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction : what Gertrude Stein wonders about historians ; What happened to women
in the silent U.S. film industry? ; Where was Antonia Dickson? : the peculiarity
of historical time ; More fictions : did Alice Guy Blaché make La fée aux choux (The
cabbage fairy)? ; Object lessons : the ideology of historical loss and restoration
; The melodrama theory of historical time ; Are they "just like us"? ; Working in
the dream factory ; The world export of the "voice of the home" ; Conclusion : women
made redundant.
