Women filmmakers in early Hollywood /
Mahar, Karen Ward, 1960-
Women filmmakers in early Hollywood / Karen Ward Mahar. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006. - x, 291 p., [26] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. - Studies in industry and society . - Studies in industry and society. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-276) and index.
Preface -- Introduction : Making movies and incorporating gender -- Prologue : "The greatest electrical novelty in the world" : gender and filmmaking before the turn of the century -- Expansion, stardom, and uplift : women enter the American movie industry, 1908-1916 -- A quiet invasion : nickelodeons, narratives, and the first women in film -- "To get some of the 'good gravy'" for themselves : stardom, features, and the first star-producers -- "So much more natural to a woman" : gender, uplift, and the woman filmmaker -- Interlude : Women in serials and short comedies, 1912-1922 -- The "girls who play" : the short film and the new woman -- business pure and simple" : the end of uplift and the masculinization of Hollywood, 1916-1928 -- real punches" : Lois Weber, Cecil B. Demille, and the end of the uplift movement -- A "'her-own-company' epidemic" : stars as independent producers -- "Doing a 'man's work" : the rise of the studio system and the remasculinization of filmmaking -- Epilogue : "Getting away with it" -- Notes -- Essay on sources -- Index. pt. 1. ch. 1. ch. 2. ch. 3. ch. 4. pt. 2. "A ch. 5. "The ch. 6. ch. 7.
"This book explores when, how, and why women were accepted as filmmakers in the 1910s and why, by the 1920s, those opportunities had disappeared. In looking at the early film industry as an industry - a place of work - Karen Mahar not only unravels the mystery of the disappearing female filmmaker but untangles the complicated relationship among gender, work culture, and business within modern industrial organizations." "Mahar's study integrates feminist methodologies of examining the gendering of work with thorough historical scholarship of American industry and business culture. Tracing the transformation of the film industry into a legitimate "big business" of the 1920s and explaining the fate of the female filmmaker during the silent era, Mahar demonstrates how industrial growth and change can unexpectedly open - and close - opportunities for women."--BOOK JACKET.
0801884365 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780801884368 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2006002413
Women in the motion picture industry--United States.
Women in motion pictures.
Motion pictures and women--United States.
791.430973
Women filmmakers in early Hollywood / Karen Ward Mahar. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006. - x, 291 p., [26] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. - Studies in industry and society . - Studies in industry and society. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-276) and index.
Preface -- Introduction : Making movies and incorporating gender -- Prologue : "The greatest electrical novelty in the world" : gender and filmmaking before the turn of the century -- Expansion, stardom, and uplift : women enter the American movie industry, 1908-1916 -- A quiet invasion : nickelodeons, narratives, and the first women in film -- "To get some of the 'good gravy'" for themselves : stardom, features, and the first star-producers -- "So much more natural to a woman" : gender, uplift, and the woman filmmaker -- Interlude : Women in serials and short comedies, 1912-1922 -- The "girls who play" : the short film and the new woman -- business pure and simple" : the end of uplift and the masculinization of Hollywood, 1916-1928 -- real punches" : Lois Weber, Cecil B. Demille, and the end of the uplift movement -- A "'her-own-company' epidemic" : stars as independent producers -- "Doing a 'man's work" : the rise of the studio system and the remasculinization of filmmaking -- Epilogue : "Getting away with it" -- Notes -- Essay on sources -- Index. pt. 1. ch. 1. ch. 2. ch. 3. ch. 4. pt. 2. "A ch. 5. "The ch. 6. ch. 7.
"This book explores when, how, and why women were accepted as filmmakers in the 1910s and why, by the 1920s, those opportunities had disappeared. In looking at the early film industry as an industry - a place of work - Karen Mahar not only unravels the mystery of the disappearing female filmmaker but untangles the complicated relationship among gender, work culture, and business within modern industrial organizations." "Mahar's study integrates feminist methodologies of examining the gendering of work with thorough historical scholarship of American industry and business culture. Tracing the transformation of the film industry into a legitimate "big business" of the 1920s and explaining the fate of the female filmmaker during the silent era, Mahar demonstrates how industrial growth and change can unexpectedly open - and close - opportunities for women."--BOOK JACKET.
0801884365 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780801884368 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2006002413
Women in the motion picture industry--United States.
Women in motion pictures.
Motion pictures and women--United States.
791.430973