Pink-slipped : what happened to the women in the silent film industries? /
Jane M. Gaines.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource.
- Women and film history international .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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Women in the motion picture industry--History--United States--20th century. Silent films--History.--United States Motion pictures and women--United States.