Description: Further DetailsTitle: Lois Weber in Early HollywoodCondition: NewISBN-10: 0520241525EAN: 9780520241527ISBN: 9780520241527Publisher: University of California PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 05/01/2015Description: Among early Hollywood's most renowned filmmakers, Lois Weber was considered one of the era's 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 Weber's 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 cinema's power to engage topical issues for popular audiences. Her work grappled with the profound changes in women's 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 Hollywood's bid for respectability were in the end written out of that industry's history. Lois Weber in Early Hollywood is an essential addition to histories of silent cinema, early filmmaking in Los Angeles, and women's contributions to American culture.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 28mmItem Weight: 680gAuthor: Shelley StampGenre: Films & TVRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Lois Weber in Early Hollywood
Title: Lois Weber in Early Hollywood
ISBN-10: 0520241525
EAN: 9780520241527
ISBN: 9780520241527
Release Date: 05/01/2015
Release Year: 2015
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Lois Weber in Early Hollywood
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Topic: Film / General, Gender Studies, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Film / History & Criticism
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2015
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Performing Arts, Social Science
Item Weight: 24.1 Oz
Author: Shelley Stamp
Item Length: 0.9 in
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
