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Author:

Gaines, Jane, 1946- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88267508

Title:

Pink-slipped : what happened to women in the silent film industries? / Jane M. Gaines.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Women in the motion picture industry--United States--History--20th century.
Silent films--United States--History.
Motion pictures and women--United States.
Motion pictures and women.
Silent films.
Women in the motion picture industry.
United States.
1900-1999
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-295) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : what Gertrude Stein wonders about historians -- What happened to women in the silent U.S. film industry? -- Where was Antonia Dickson? : the peculiarity of historical time -- More fictions : did Alice Guy Blaché make La fée aux choux (The cabbage fairy)? -- Object lessons : the ideology of historical loss and restoration -- The melodrama theory of historical time -- Are they "just like us"? -- Working in the dream factory -- The world export of the "voice of the home" -- Conclusion : women made redundant.

Series:

Women and film history international

ISBN:

0252083431
9780252083433
025204181X
9780252041815

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1005759989

LCCN:

2017042174

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UUAX975 -- Briar Cliff University - Mueller Library (Sioux City)