Toward a Feminist Historiography of Early Cinema
Toward a Feminist Historiography of Early Cinema
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走向早期电影的女性主义史学
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2017
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Eva Warth
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repeat.—Robyn Wiegman;F. Maas;Nell Shipman;Annette Förster;Eva Warth
The early years of the twenty-first century are a critical period for feminist reflection on the cinema of the early twentieth century. The access to historical materials fostered by the digital age, the increased readiness for collaboration among themembers of theFédération Internationale desArchives du Film (), and the recent escalation in the public sphere of a qualitatively new interest in silent cinema has made visible the remarkable number of roles played by early women producers, directors, stars, and writers in the formation of the young industry. The rush to distribute videos featuring ‘‘First Movie Ladies’’ has been matched by a spate of cable-channel documentaries on women and early cinema.3 The monthlong celebration of ‘‘Women Film Pioneers’’ on Turner Classic Movies in August is a notable signpost of this initiative, not only for the bolstered visibility of previously obscure early films to the general population, but also for the prominent position allotted to feminist scholars like Jane Gaines and Alison McMahan, who were included as introductory and research commentators, on prime-time television.4 The merger of academic and public venues also shaped the festival at the American Museum of the Moving Image inMay,which featured the careers ofMabelNormand, Federica Maas, Nell Shipman, and Helen Gardner, as well as two groundbreaking international conferences on ‘‘Gender and Silent Cinema’’—the