Diane NegraA Feminist Reader in Early Cinema
Herausgeber: Bean, Jennifer M; Negra, Diane
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
