Early Women Stars: Volume 16

by Jennifer M. Bean

This special issue of Camera Obscura , which gathers work from leading feminists in film studies, takes a fresh look at early film and the creative ventures of women performers. While much of the existing scholarship of the silent era focuses on film form and industrial organization, the essays collected here aim to recover women's roles in the early decades of cinema. They do so in part by considering the ways in which social and ideological economies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822365154
• ISBN13: 9780822365150
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.1"