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Auteur(s) : Stamp, Shelley (1963-....)
Titre(s) : Lois Weber in early Hollywood [Texte imprimé] / Shelley Stamp
Publication : Oakland, California : University of California press, cop. 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (IX-374 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Comprend : Creating a signature ; Life's mirror? : progressive films for a progressive era
; Women's labor, creative control and independence in a changing industry ; "Exit
flapper, enter woman", or Weber in jazz age Hollywood.
Note(s) : Filmogr. p. 337-352. Index
"Among early Hollywood's most brilliant 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,
who have long been recognized 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, establishing 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. Mentor to many women in the industry, Weber demanded a place at the table
in early professional guilds, decrying the limited roles available for women on screen
and in the 1920s protesting the growing climate of hostility toward female directors.
Through her examination of Weber's career, Stamp demonstrates how female filmmakers
who had played a part in early Hollywood's bid for respectability were in the end
written out of that industry's history. 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."--Provided by publisher
Sujet(s) : Weber, Loïs (1881-1939) -- Critique et interprétation
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780520241527 (cloth). - ISBN 0520241525 (cloth). - ISBN 9780520284463 (pbk.)
(alk. paper). - ISBN 0520284461 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 9780520960084 (erroné)
(ebook). - ISBN 0520960084 (erroné) (ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44331190g
Notice n° :
FRBNF44331190
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