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"Because I Am a Woman": Thinking Identity and Agency for Historiography
- Film History: An International Journal
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 25, Number 1-2, 2013
- pp. 205-214
- Article
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Current authorship studies focus on understanding identity and agency. This essay argues that individuals self-fashion identities that are (1) improvised, (2) in tension between the past and possible futures, and (3) imaginations of the self in "worlds of action." The case of Gloria Swanson's authorship in Sadie Thompson is used as an illustration.