Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood

by Mark Garrett Cooper

Book Overview

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011.

Between 1912 and 1919, the Universal Film Manufacturing Company credited eleven women with directing at least 170 films, but by the mid-1920s all of these directors had left Universal and only one still worked in the film industry at all. Two generations of cinema historians have either overlooked or been stymied by the mystery of why Universal first systematically supported and promoted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252035224
• ISBN13: 9780252035227
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"