Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood Tapa dura - 2006

Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very light wear to jacket. Pages are clean, crisp, and unmarked. Your book will be securely packaged, and promptly dispatched. Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood explores when, how, and why women were accepted as filmmakers in the 1910s and why, by the 1920s, those opportunities had disappeared. In looking at the early film industry as an industry -- a place of work -- Mahar not only unravels the mystery of the disappearing female filmmaker but untangles the complicated relationship among gender, work culture, and business within modern industrial organizations. In the early 1910s, the film industry followed a theatrical model, fostering an egalitarian work culture in which everyone -- male and female -- helped behind the scenes in a variety of jobs. In this culture women thrived in powerful, creative roles, especially as writers, directors, and producers. By the end of that decade, however, mushrooming star salaries and skyrocketing movie budgets prompted the… Leer más

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good -. x, [2], 291 p., [28] p. of illustrations; 23 cm. Black cloth with purple spine title. No dust jacket. Ex-library: stamped "Temple Univ" on upper page edges. A fascinating history of the work of women filmmakers in the first years of the American film industry, looking at Alice Guy Blaché, Gene Gauntier, Helen Holmes, Mabel Normand, Ida May Park, Mary Pickford, and Lois Weber among others. In Very Good- Condition: discoloration at tail of spine; front fixed endpaper scraped; ink underlining on 2 pages; otherwise, clean and tight.

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