Doing Women’s Film and Television History Conference
10-11th July 2021
Discount code valid until 15th August 2021, 11:59 pm BST . Please note we only ship to the UK, EMEA & APAC
Women and Film History International
Published by the University of Illinois Press
A new generation of motion picture historians has discovered that women have been much more influential as spectators, actors, and producers in world film history than previously thought. The series investigates the significance of gender in the cinema century by taking advantage of new print material and moving picture archival discoveries as well as the benefits of digital access and storage. The Women and the Silent Screen conferences held in the Netherlands, United States, Canada, and Mexico indicate an internationalization of research efforts. The Press seeks single-authored books and collections as well as short monographs of 40,000 to 50,000 words.
Acquiring Editor: Daniel Nasset
Series Editors: Kay Armatage, Jane M. Gaines, and Christine Gledhill
Movie Mavens
US Newspaper Women Take On the Movies, 1914-1923
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30th September 2021
Queer Timing
The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema
£23.99
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16th June 2019
Pink-Slipped
What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?
£25.99
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23rd February 2018
Seeing Sarah Bernhardt
Performance and Silent Film
£25.99
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9th September 2015
Doing Women's Film History
Reframing Cinemas, Past and Future
£23.99
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3rd September 2015
Exporting Perilous Pauline
Pearl White and Serial Film Craze
£22.99
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28th June 2013
Universal Women
Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood
£24.99
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10th March 2010
Enter our prize draw for the chance to win Movie Workers by Melanie Bell
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Movie Workers
The Women Who Made British Cinema
Melanie Bell
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
After the advent of sound, women in the British film industry formed an essential corps of below-the-line workers, laboring in positions from animation artist to negative cutter to costume designer. Melanie Bell maps the work of these women decade-by-decade, examining their far-ranging economic and creative contributions against the backdrop of the discrimination that constrained their careers.
Pink Slipped
What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?
Jane M. Gaines
Women held more positions of power in the silent film era than at any other time in American motion picture history. Marion Leonard broke from acting to cofound a feature film company. Gene Gauntier, the face of Kalem Films, also wrote the first script of Ben-Hur. Helen Holmes choreographed her own breathtaking on-camera stunt work. Yet they and the other pioneering filmmaking women vanished from memory.
“An intellectually dense and enlightening intervention in the never-to-be-concluded discussion of how we frame history and how we navigate time.” —Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television
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