A feminist reader in early cinema

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Introduction: Toward a feminist historiography of early cinema / Jennifer M. Bean -- I. Reflecting film authorship. Circuits of memory and history: the memoirs of Alice Guy-Blaché / Amelie Hastie -- Nazimova's veils: Salome at the intersection of film histories / Patricia White -- Of cabbages and authors / Jane M. Gaines -- Reevaluating footnotes: women directors of the silent era / Radha Vatsal -- II. Ways of looking. The gender of empire: American modernity, masculinity, and Edison's war actualities / Kristen Whissel -- Making ends meet: "welfare films" and the politics of consumption during the progressive era / Constance Balides -- Irma Vep, vamp in the city: mapping the criminal feminine in early French serials/ Kristine J. Butler -- The flapper film: comedy, dance, and jazz age kinaesthetics / Lori Landay -- III. Cultural inversions. The queer career of Jim Crow: racial and sexual transformation in a Florida enchantment / Siobhan B. Somerville -- Taking precautions, or regulating early birth-control films / Shelly Stamp -- The new woman and consumer culture: Cecil B. DeMille's sex comedies / Sumiko Higashi -- "So real as to seem like life itself": the Photoplay fiction of Adela Rogers St. Johns / Anne Morey -- IV. Performing bodies. Oh, "doll divine": Mary Pickford, masquerade, and the pedophilic gaze / Gaylyn Studlar -- Immigrant stardom in imperial America: Pola Negri and the problem of typology / Diane Negra -- Technologies of early stardom and the extraordinary body / Jennifer M. Bean -- Femininity in flight: androgyny and gynandry in early silent Italian cinema / Angela Dalle Vacche -- Greta Garbo and silent cinema: the actress as Art Deco icon / Lucy Fischer -- V. The problem with periodization. An amorous history of the silver screen: the actress as vernacular embodiment in early Chinese film culture / Zhang Zhen -- Technology's body: cinematic vision in modernity / Mary Ann Doane -- Parallax historiography: the flâneuse as cyberfeminist / Catherine Russell.

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