Movie-struck girls : women and motion picture culture after the nickelodeon

Movie-struck girls : women and motion picture culture after the nickelodeon / Shelley Stamp.

This volume examines women's films and filmgoing in the 1910s, a period when female patronage was energetically courted by the industry for the first time. It demonstrates that women significantly complicated cinema going throughout this formative, transitional era.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stamp, Shelley, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
Motion pictures and women.
Motion pictures for women.
Women in motion pictures.
Culture in motion pictures.
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Table of Contents:
  • Spare Us One Evening: Cultivating Cinema's Female Audience
  • Playing to the Ladies
  • Added Attractions: Women in the Audience
  • Is Any Girl Safe? Motion Pictures, Women's Leisure, and the White Slavery Scare
  • The White Slavery Scare
  • White Slavery and Motion Picture Audiences
  • White Slavery on the Screen
  • Female Spectators at the White Slave Films
  • Ready-Made Customers: Female Movie Fans and the Serial Craze
  • Promoting Pauline
  • The Biggest Thrills Are Yet to Come: Serial Desire and the Heterogeneous Text
  • An Awful Struggle between Love and Ambition: Serial Heroines and Modern Femininity
  • What Sort of Fellow Is Pearl White? Serial Queens and Their Female Fans
  • Civic Housekeeping: Women's Suffrage, Female Viewers, and the Body Politic
  • Defining Female Citizenship in Suffrage Comedies
  • Recruiting Female Viewers
  • Civic Housekeeping and the Conservative Appeal.

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