A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema

by Radha Vatsal and Jennifer M. Bean

Book Overview

A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema marks a new era of feminist film scholarship. The twenty essays collected here demonstrate how feminist historiographies at once alter and enrich ongoing debates over visuality and identification, authorship, stardom, and nationalist ideologies in cinema and media studies. Drawing extensively on archival research, the collection yields startling accounts of women's multiple roles as early producers, directors, writers,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822329999
• ISBN13: 9780822329992
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.4"