Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?

by Jane M. Gaines

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252083431
• ISBN13: 9780252083433
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.9" x 9.9"