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100 1 $aGaines, Jane,$d1946-$eauthor.
245 10 $aPink-slipped :$bwhat happened to women in the silent film industries? /$cJane M. Gaines.
264 1 $aUrbana :$bUniversity of Illinois Press,$c[2018]
300 $axii, 306 pages :$billustrations ;$c26 cm.
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490 1 $aWomen and film history international
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 207-295) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : what Gertrude Stein wonders about historians -- What happened to women in the silent U.S. film industry? -- Where was Antonia Dickson? : the peculiarity of historical time -- More fictions : did Alice Guy Blache make La fe e aux choux (The cabbage fairy)? -- Object lessons : the ideology of historical loss and restoration -- The melodrama theory of historical time -- Are they "just like us"? -- Working in the dream factory -- The world export of the "voice of the home" -- Conclusion : women made redundant.
520 $a"Women held more positions of power in the silent film era than at any other time in American motion picture history. Marion Leonard broke from acting to cofound a feature film company. Gene Gauntier, the face of Kalem Films, also wrote the first script of Ben-Hur . Helen Holmes choreographed her own breathtaking on-camera stunt work. Yet they and the other pioneering filmmaking women vanished from memory. Using individual careers as a point of departure, Jane Gaines charts how women first fell out of the limelight and then out of the film history itself. A more perplexing event cemented their obscurity: the failure of 1970s feminist historiography to rediscover them. Gaines examines how it happened against a backdrop of feminist theory and her own meditation on the limits that historiography imposes on scholars. Pondering how silent era women have become absent in the abstract while present in reality, Gaines sees a need for a theory of these artists' pasts that relates their aspirations to those of contemporary women. A bold journey through history and memory, Pink-Slipped pursues the still-elusive fate of the influential women in the early years of film."--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aWomen in the motion picture industry$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aSilent films$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aMotion pictures and women$zUnited States.
830 0 $aWomen and film history international.
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