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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

Richard Abel, Richard Abel, Grace Kingsley, Kitty Kelly, Charlotta Bass, Louella O. Parsons, Esther Hoffman, "The Film Girl", Dorothy Day, Mildred Joclyn, Oma Moody Lawrence, Mae Tinee, Janet Flanner, Genevieve Harris, Charlotte S. Kelly, Marjorie Daw, Virginia Tracy, Rae McRae, Virginia Dale, Harriette Underhill, Alberta Hartley

£23.99

University of Illinois Press

30th September 2021

Movie Workers

The Women Who Made British Cinema

Melanie Bell

£23.99

University of Illinois Press

6th July 2021

Queer Timing

The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema

Susan Potter

£23.99

University of Illinois Press

16th June 2019

Subject to Reality

Women and Documentary Film

Shilyh Warren

£21.99

University of Illinois Press

16th May 2019

Pink-Slipped

What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?

Jane M Gaines

£25.99

University of Illinois Press

23rd February 2018

Seeing Sarah Bernhardt

Performance and Silent Film

Victoria Duckett

£25.99

University of Illinois Press

9th September 2015

Doing Women's Film History

Reframing Cinemas, Past and Future

Christine Gledhill, Julia Knight, Jane M Gaines, Monica Dall'asta, Kay Armatage, Eylem Atakav, Karina Aveyard, Canan Balan, Cécile Chich, Monica Dall'asta, Eliza Anna Delveroudi, Jane M Gaines, Christine Gledhill, Julia Knight, Neepa Majumdar, Michele Leigh, Luke McKernan, Debashree Mukherjee, Giuliana Muscio, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, Rashmi Sawhney, Elizabeth Ramirez Soto, Sarah Street, Kimberly Tomadjoglou

£23.99

University of Illinois Press

3rd September 2015

Germaine Dulac

A Cinema of Sensations

Tami Williams

£25.99

University of Illinois Press

24th July 2014

Exporting Perilous Pauline

Pearl White and Serial Film Craze

Marina Dahlquist, Weihong Bao, Rudmer Canjels, Marina Dahlquist, Monica Dall'asta, Kevin B. Johnson, Christina Petersen, Rosie Thomas

£22.99

University of Illinois Press

28th June 2013

Universal Women

Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood

Mark Garrett Cooper

£24.99

University of Illinois Press

10th March 2010

The Uncanny Gaze

The Drama of Early German Cinema

Heide Schlupmann, Inga Pollmann, Miriam Hansen

£27.99

University of Illinois Press

15th January 2010

A Great Big Girl Like Me

The Films of Marie Dressler

Victoria Sturtevant

£19.99

University of Illinois Press

8th May 2009


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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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