Lois Weber in Early Hollywood by Shelley Stamp (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Lois Weber in Early Hollywood by Shelley Stamp Drawing on a range of materials untapped by previous historians, this book offers an comprehensive study of Webers remarkable career as director, screenwriter, and actress. It also provides compelling evidence of the extraordinary role that women played in shaping American movie culture. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Among early Hollywoods most renowned filmmakers, Lois Weber was considered one of the eras "three great minds" alongside D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille. Despite her accomplishments, Weber has been marginalized in relation to her contemporaries, who have long been recognized as fathers of American cinema. Drawing on a range of materials untapped by previous historians, Shelley Stamp offers the first comprehensive study of Webers remarkable career as director, screenwriter, and actress. Lois Weber in Early Hollywood provides compelling evidence of the extraordinary role that women played in shaping American movie culture.Weber made films on capital punishment, contraception, poverty, and addiction, establishing cinemas power to engage topical issues for popular audiences. Her work grappled with the profound changes in womens lives that unsettled Americans at the beginning of the twentieth century, and her later films include sharp critiques of heterosexual marriage and consumer capitalism. Mentor to many women in the industry, Weber demanded a place at the table in early professional guilds, decrying the limited roles available for women on-screen and in the 1920s protesting the growing climate of hostility toward female directors. Stamp demonstrates how female filmmakers who had played a part in early Hollywoods bid for respectability were in the end written out of that industrys history. Lois Weber in Early Hollywood is an essential addition to histories of silent cinema, early filmmaking in Los Angeles, and womens contributions to American culture. Flap "A brilliant researcher and a masterful historian, Shelley Stamp gives us an always fascinating and incisive portrait of one of the silent eras foremost filmmakers. Much more than a powerful biography of an unjustly marginalized figure, Lois Weber in Early Hollywood asks its readers to thoroughly reimagine American cinema of the 1910s and 1920s. This is an essential work of film history--a stunning achievement." --Charles Musser, Yale University Author Biography Shelley Stamp is author of Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon; coeditor of American Cinemas Transitional Era: Audiences, Institutions, Practices; and founding editor of Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal. She is Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Portrait of a Filmmaker 1. Creating a Signature 2. "Lifes Mirror": Progressive Films for a Progressive Era 3. Womens Labor, Creative Control, and "Independence" in a Changing Industry 4. "Exit Flapper, Enter Woman"; or, Weber in Jazz Age Hollywood Conclusion: "Forgotten with a Vengeance" Notes Filmography Index Review "A recommended work of early film scholarship... Lois Weber in Early Hollywood stands as one of the better filmmaker studies in recent years." * Journal of Film and Video * Review Quote "A recommended work of early film scholarship... Lois Weber in Early Hollywood stands as one of the better filmmaker studies in recent years." Details ISBN0520241525 Author Shelley Stamp Publisher University of California Press Year 2015 ISBN-10 0520241525 ISBN-13 9780520241527 Format Hardcover Imprint University of California Press Place of Publication Berkerley Country of Publication United States DEWEY 791.430233092 Pages 384 Short Title LOIS WEBER IN EARLY HOLLYWOOD Language English Media Book Residence Santa Cruz, CA, US Birth 1963 UK Release Date 2015-05-01 Publication Date 2015-05-01 AU Release Date 2015-05-01 NZ Release Date 2015-05-01 US Release Date 2015-05-01 Illustrations 54 b-w images Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159857470;

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