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Silent Women Pioneers of Cinema

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ISBN-10: 0956632998

ISBN-13: 9780956632999

Edition: 2016

Authors: Melody Bridges, Cheryl Robson, Kevin Brownlow, Bryony Dixon, Shelley Stamp

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This book offers the first in-depth exploration of the women filmmakers who were integral to early twentieth-century cinema: directing films, inventing techniques, running businesses, and setting up distribution. Silent Women explores the impact of these pioneers, as well as the conditions that led to increasing and persistent gender inequality as the movie business transitioned into the modern era.
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Book details

Copyright year: 2016
Publisher: Aurora Metro Publications Limited
Publication date: 9/1/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

BRYONY DIXON is Senior Curator, Silent Film, at the BFI National Library and Archive.nbsp; As Project Manager of the BFI Chaplin Research Project she organised the first international academic conference on Chaplin and designed and developed the BFI Chaplin website, a resource bringing together newly digitised materials from our collections with information, interpretation and new academic work as well as a focus on the BFI's own restoration work on the Chaplin Keystones. In 1998nbsp;she co-founded with Laraine Porter and group of friends the British Silent Cinema Festival (a combined festival and conference) to concentrate research on British silent film. This is coming up for its 10th…