Flickers of Desire: Movie Stars of the 1910s

Contributors

C O N T R I B U TO R S RICHARD ABEL is Robert Altman Collegiate Professor of Film Studies in Screen Arts & Cultures at the University of Michigan. Most recently he edited the award-winning Encyclopedia of Early Cinema (2005/2009/2010), published Americanizing the Movies and “Movie-Mad” Audiences, 1910–1914 (2006), and co-edited (with Giorgio Bertellini and Rob King) Early Cinema and the “National” (2008). Currently he is writing Menus for Movie Land: Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture, 1913–1916. JENNIFER M. BEAN is the director of the Cinema Studies Program and an associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Washington. She is co-editor of A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema (2002) and of a special issue of Camera Obscura on “Early Women Stars.” She is currently editing a collection entitled Border Crossings: Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space, and writing a book on the geopolitical imagination of early Hollywood and the formation of mass culture. GIORGIO BERTELLINI is an associate professor of film studies in the Departments of Screen Arts & Cultures and Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Emir Dusturica (1996; 2nd expanded ed. 2010) and the award-winning Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque (2009), editor of Cinema of Italy (2004; 2007), and co-editor (with Richard Abel and Rob King) of Early Cinema and the “National” (2008). MARK GARRETT COOPER is the interim director of Moving Image Research Collections and an associate professor of film and media studies at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Love Rules: Silent Hollywood and the Rise of the Managerial Class (2003) and Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood (2010). He is currently researching the history of motion picture accounting, and, with John Marx, is writing a book about cinema’s role in the development of humanities disciplines. SCOTT CURTIS is an associate professor in the Radio/Television/Film Department at Northwestern University, where he teaches film history and historiography . He has published on a wide variety of topics, including early film theory, film sound, animation, Alfred Hitchcock, the Motion Picture Patents Company, industrial film, medical cinematography, microcinematography, 279 ★★★★★★★★★★ ✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩ and other scientific uses of motion pictures. He has also written on Douglas Fairbanks for Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s, edited by Patrice Petro (2010) CHRISTINE GLEDHILL is a visiting professor of cinema studies at the University of Sunderland, U.K. She has published extensively on feminist film criticism , film melodrama, and British cinema, including her book Reframing British Cinema 1918–1920: Between Restraint and Passion (2003). She is completing an anthology on genre and gender, working with Dr. Ira Bhaskar (Jawaharlal Nehru University) on a British Academy—supported project investigating conceptions of melodrama in Indian cinema, and is leading the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded “Women’s Film History Network—UK/Ireland.” KRISTEN HATCH is an assistant professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is currently completing a history of performances of childhood through the 1930s, focusing on how the reception of stage and screen performances was shaped by shifting notions of sexuality and gender. ROB KING is an assistant professor in history and cinema studies at the University of Toronto, where he is currently working on a study of early sound slapstick and Depression-era mass culture. He is the author of The Fun Factory : The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture (2009) and co-editor of the volumes Early Cinema and the “National” (2008) and Slapstick Comedy (2010). DAISUKE MIYAO is an associate professor of cinema studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom (2007), editor of The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema (forthcoming), and co-translator of Kiju Yoshida’s Ozu’s Anti-Cinema (2003). Miyao is currently writing a book entitled The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema, the Monochrome Era. ANNE MOREY is an associate professor of English at Texas A&M University. Her book Hollywood Outsiders: The Adaptation of the Film Industry, 1913–1934 (2003) deals with Hollywood’s critics and co-opters in the later silent and early sound periods. She has published in Film History, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature...