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Women in the Silent Cinema: Histories of Fame and Fate (Framing Film)
Author(s): Annette Förster (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: March 20, 2017
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 560 pages
- ISBN-10: 9089647198
- ISBN-13: 9789089647191
Book Description
This magisterial book offers comprehensive accounts of the professional itineraries of three women in the silent film in the Netherlands, France and North America. Annette Förster presents a careful assessment of the long career of Dutch stage and film actress Adriënne Solser; an exploration of the stage and screen careers of French actress and filmmaker Musidora and Canadian-born actress and filmmaker Nell Shipman; an analysis of the interaction between the popular stage and the silent cinema from the perspective of women at work in both realms; fresh insights into Dutch stage and screen comedy, the French revue and the American Northwest drama of the 1910s; and much more, all grounded in a wealth of archival research.
About the Author
Annette Förster is a media historian and film curator specialized in women in film history.
