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Book SynopsisExamines women's films and filmgoing in the 1910s, a period when female patronage was energetically courted by the industry for the first time. This title looks closely at how women were invited to participate in movie culture, the films they were offered, and the visual pleasures they enjoyed.
Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2000 Finalist for the 2000 Theatre Library Association Award "A delightful and informative read and destined to be a classic in the field of film studies, this book is bound to attract a broad audience of scholars and movie buffs interested in learning more about the connections between movies and women in the early years of the film industry."--Choice
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Spare Us One Evening: Cultivating Cinema's Female Audience Playing to the Ladies Added Attractions: Women in the Audience 2. 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 3. 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 4. 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 Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index
