Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood

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Contents Preface xiv introduction Making Movies and Incorporating Gender 1 prologue “The Greatest Electrical Novelty in the World” Gender and Filmmaking before the Turn of the Century 9 <฀part one = Expansion, Stardom &Uplift Women Enter the American Movie Industry, 1908–1916 27 chapter one A Quiet Invasion Nickelodeons, Narratives, and the First Women in Film 29 chapter two “To Get Some of the ‘Good Gravy’” for Themselves Stardom, Features, and the First Star-Producers 53 chapter three “So Much More Natural to a Woman” Gender, Uplift, and the Woman Filmmaker 77 <฀interlude = Women in Serials & Short Comedies, 1912–1922 101 chapter four The “Girls Who Play” The Short Film and the New Woman 103 <฀part two = “A Business Pure &Simple” The End of Uplift and the Masculinization of Hollywood, 1916–1928 133 chapter five “The Real Punches” Lois Weber, Cecil B. DeMille, and the End of the Uplift Movement 135 chapter six A “‘Her-Own-Company’ Epidemic” Stars as Independent Producers 154 chapter seven “Doing a ‘Man’s Work’” The Rise of the Studio System and the Remasculinization of Filmmaking 179 epilogue Getting Away with It 204 Notes 209 Essay on Sources 271 Index 277 Illustrations follow pages 76 and 178. viii Contents ...