Robson Silent Women

Pioneers of Cinema
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-9932207-0-8
Verlag: Aurora Metro Books
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 314 Seiten

The first ever overview of women's contributions to the dawn of cinema looking at a variety of roles from writers and directors to film editors and critics.

Why have women such as Alice Guy-Blache, the creator of narrative cinema, been written out of film history? Why have so many women working behind the scenes in film been rendered invisible and silent for so long?

explores the incredible contribution of women at the dawn of cinema when, surprisingly, more women were employed across the board in the film industry than they are now.

It also looks at how women helped to shape the content, style of acting and development of the movie business in their roles as actors, writers, editors, cinematographers, directors and producers. In addition, we describe how women engaged with and influenced the development of cinema in their roles as audience, critics, fans, reviewers, journalists and the arbiters of morality in films. And finally, we ask when the current discrimination and male domination of the industry will give way to allow more women access to the top jobs. In addition to its historical focus on women working in film during the silent film era, the term silent also refers to the silencing and eradication of the enormous contribution that women have made to the development of the motion picture industry.

Danny Leigh, , July 2016

Greg Jameson,  March 2016

Paul Duncan, Film Historian

Pamela Hutchinson, 

Laraine Porter, Co-Artistic Director of British Silent Film Festival

Jason Wood, Author and Visiting Professor at MMU

Neil McGlone. The Criterion Collection

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robson, Cheryl