... Mary MacLane Nina Niovilla silent cinema Stefanía Socha Yang Naimei In summer 2022, I began the curatorial research for a theatrical film series dedicated to silent-era women filmmakers to mark the Women Film Pioneers Project’s ten-year anniversary as a public digital resource hosted...

... of the University of California 2024 Asta Nielsen Cinema’s First Nasty Women feminist film history film curation Il Cinema Ritrovato Nell Shipman pre-Code Hollywood silent cinema young cinema The real history of the cinema is the invisible history—history of friends getting together doing...

... philosophies of cinema. I have a class on short-form storytelling, which includes examples that range from Nasty Women to TikTok, and from social media to silent cinema. You can mix and match those things by asking, how do we tell a story when we have a very limited amount of time? To bring those together...

... they participated reveal how the United States authenticates its own imagination of itself as a modernizing missionary of industrial imperialism. Cross-race performance Doraldina Hawai‘i hula imperial imaginaries Progressive Era racialization silent cinema Toots Paka transit US settler colonialism...

... of the University of California 2023 Asta Nielsen Danish silent cinema German silent cinema Hamlet Julie K. Allen Shakespeare on screen silent cinema silent film acting silent film stardom Urban Gad In spring of 2022, the memoir of silent film star Asta Nielsen was published in English...

... film restoration historiography Little Chrysia silent cinema “We can and should be changing the film history that was handed down to us,” Elif Rongen - Kaynakçi excitedly said to me one sunny September day in Amsterdam. This provocation is, of course, a familiar rallying cry for the community...

... in the present. Figure 2. Google Ngrams, “pioneer,” visualized March 2, 2021. Figure 3. Google Ngrams, and “media pioneer,” visualized March 2, 2021. © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 film pioneers silent cinema victorian cinema new media frontier western...

... Pickford Miriam Hansen silent cinema vernacular modernism women in aviation Long before I ever saw an airplane I had dreams of flying through the air. —Mabel Normand, 1916 1 This essay explores the curious kinship between aviation and cinema through the intersection of affective gender...

... father, Pedro Comello, the film's director and principal cinematographer. Nil's active character and her discreet offscreen work may seem of minor historical importance. However, given the paucity of working women as protagonists in Brazilian silent cinema and the staggering shortage of other examples...

... Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2017 film audience Progressive Era reform movement silent cinema Social Survey Movement As Raymond Williams might well have agreed, there are in fact no audiences; there are only ways of seeing...

... to reconstruct the latter. The article is illustrated with drawings and collages based on the author's research. Fernanda Negri Pouget Italian cinema newspaper comics silent cinema Italian cinema in the 1910s: the thought conjures up images of epics set in antiquity … of the aesthetic decadence...

... film theory Second Wave feminist history silent cinema The archival worker can get very wrapped up in historical enigmas, or we might say “tangled up” in the intrigue of past events. The case I take up here is especially confounding given the question at hand: how or whether to write a narrative...