Cinema's first nasty women / curated by Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi ; produced for video by Bret Wood ; Kino Lorber, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Women Film Pioneers Project, Eye Filmmuseum, FIC-Silente, and Carleton University.
Publisher:
Kino Classics,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
4 videodiscs (875 min.) : sound, black and white and black and white with color tinting ; 4 3/4 in.
Léontine, Lea Giunchi, Little Chrysia, Florence Turner, Texas Guinan, Fay Tincher, Gene Gauntier, Mabel Taliaferro, Bertha Regustus, Sarah Duhamel, Evelyn Greeley, Laura Bayley, Edna "Billy" Foster, Tsuru Aoki, Berthe Dagmar, Minnie Devereaux, Lilian St. Cyr, Ellen Lowe. Full screen (1.33:1). Special features: Video introduction featuring series curators Laura Horak, Maggie Hennefeld and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi; eleven video introductions to films and performers, featuring Liza Black, Macinam Jean Cuthand, Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, Dana Reason, Arigon Starr, Susan Stryker, and Kyla Wazana Tompkins; QR code for .pdf of 116-page booklet with essays, interviews, photos, and detailed film notes; audio commentaries for select films.
Contents:
Disc 1, A Bad Cinema's First Nasty Women: An Introduction -- About the Scores: An Introduction by Dana Reason -- LÉONTINE: The Leontine Films: An Introduction by Maggie Hennefeld ; Léontine devient trottin ; Les Ficelles de Léontine ; La pile électrique de Léontine ; Léontine en vacances ; Léontine en apprentissage ; Rosalie et Léontine vont au théâtre ; Ventilateur breveté ; Léontine enfant terrible ; Le bateau de Léontine ; Un ravalement précipité ; Léontine s'envole ; Les malices de Léontine ; Léontine garde la maison ; Amour et musique ; La peur des ombres -- LEA: Lea sui pattini ; Riposo festivo ; Lea bambola -- CATASTROPHE IN THE KITCHEN: Victoire a ses nerfs ; The Finish of Mr. Fresh ; The Dairymaid's Revenge ; La grève des bonnes ; La grève des nourrices: An Introduction by Maggie Hennefeld ; La grève des nourrices ; La ruse de Miss Plumcake ; Her First Biscuits ; How Bridget Served the Salad Undressed ; Nora's 4th of July ; How Bridget Made the Fire ; The Finish of Bridget McKeen ; Mary Jane's Mishap -- CATASTROPHE BEYOND THE KITCHEN: Laughing Gas: An Introduction by Kyla Wazana Tompkins ; Laughing Gas ; Madame fait du sport ; Les femmes cochers ; Fille de bain indiscrète ; Eugénie, redresse-toi! ; A Bad (K)night ; Le ménage Dranem ; Le Rembrandt de la rue Lepic ; Mixed Babies ; Rivalinder ; Mannekängen (fragments). Disc 2, Nellie, the Beautiful. CUNÉGONDE: Little Chrysia: An Introduction by Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi ; Cunégonde trop curieuse ; Cunégonde ramoneur ; Cunégonde femme cochère ; Cunégonde femme du monde ; Cunégonde femme crampon ; Cunégonde aime son maître ; Cunégonde jalouse ; Cunégonde membre de la SPA ; Gisèle a manqué le train ; Zoé a la main malheureuse ; Zoé et le parapluie miraculeux -- ROSALIE: Rosalie et son phonographe ; Rosalie emménage ; Rosalie a la maladie du sommeil ; Little Moritz demande Rosalie en marriage ; Little Moritz enlève Rosalie ; C'est la faute à Rosalie -- PÉTRONILLE: Le singe de Pétronille ; Pétronille gagne le grand steeple ; Patouillard a une femme jalouse ; Gavroche à Luna-Park ; Le désespoir de Pétronille -- TYRANNY AT HOME: La fureur de Mme Plumette ; Fatty and Minnie-He-Haw: An Introduction by Arigon Starr ; Fatty and Minnie-He-Haw ; Daisy Doodad's Dial ; Hypnotizing the Hypnotist ; Tilly's Party ; Marie est trop obéissante ; Onésime et la toilette de mademoiselle ; Badinois ; Non! Tu ne sortiras pas sans moi ; Lucky Jim ; Nellie, the Beautiful. Disc 3, The Night Rider. The Girl Spy Films: An Introduction by Laura Horak and Jane M. Gaines ; The Girl Spy: An Incident of the Civil War ; The Further Adventures of the Girl Spy ; The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg -- EDNA "BILLY" FOSTER: Edna "Billy" Foster: An Introduction by Susan Stryker ; A Country Cupid ; The Adventures of Billy ; A Terrible Discovery ; The Baby and the Stork -- GENDER FRONTIERS: The Red Girl and the Child: An Introduction by Liza Black ; The Red Girl and the Child ; An Up-to-Date Squ*w: An Introduction by Macinam Jean Cuthand ; An Up-to-Date Squ*w ; The Death Mask ; A Range Romance: An Introduction by Laura Horak ; A Range Romance ; Making a Man of Her ; The Planter's Wife ; Dollars and Sense ; Rowdy Ann ; The Night Rider. Disc 4, What's the World Coming To? DON'T BELIEVE YOUR EYES: The Boy Detective ; Pranks ; Taming a Husband ; Amour et science ; Mr. Smith, Barber -- ROMANCE IN DISGUISE: The Snowbird ; Phil for Short -- TOPSY-TURVY GENDER MADNESS: She's a Prince ; What's the World Coming To? Film credits and notes -- Suggested readings -- Project credits -- Special thanks. Edna "Billy" Foster / Laura Horak -- Anti-racist apporaches to curating silent cinema / Renée C. Baker, Liza Black, Eliot Britton, Enrique Ceballos, Jan Michael Looking Wolf Reibach, Cecilia Ramírez Morales, Charlene Regester, Yiman Wang -- Scoring Cinema's first nasty women / Dana Reason -- Bertha Regustus and the Black women of silent comedy / Charlene Regester -- Minnie Devereaux / Liza Black -- Lilian St. Cyr / Liza Black -- Léotine / Maggie Hennefeld -- Little Chrysia / Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi -- Edna "Billy" Foster / Laura Horak -- Film credits and notes -- Suggested readings -- Project credits -- Special thanks.
Summary:
"This four-disc set showcases more than fourteen hours of rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. These women organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of chimneys, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints. The films span a variety of genres including slapstick comedy, genteel farce, the trick film, cowboy melodrama, and adventure thriller. Cinema's First Nasty Women includes 99 European and American silent films, produced from 1898 to 1926, sourced from thirteen international film archives and libraries, with all-new musical scores, video introductions, commentary tracks, and a lavishly illustrated booklet."--Container.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.