"This collection is a persuasive reminder that the hottest current topics in film theory--cultural intersections, questions of authorship, fantasy and technology, representation and the body--demand and are illuminated by feminist inquiry."-- Linda Mizejewski, author of "Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema"
"This collection is a persuasive reminder that the hottest current topics in film theory--cultural intersections, questions of authorship, fantasy and technology, representation and the body--demand and are illuminated by feminist inquiry."-- Linda Mizejewski, author of "Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema"
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
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
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