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Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very light wear to jacket. Pages are clean, crisp, and unmarked. Your book will be securely packaged, and promptly dispatched. Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood explores when, how, and why women were accepted as filmmakers in the 1910s and why, by the 1920s, those opportunities had disappeared. In looking at the early film industry as an industry -- a place of work -- Mahar not only unravels the mystery of the disappearing female filmmaker but untangles the complicated relationship among gender, work culture, and business within modern industrial organizations. In the early 1910s, the film industry followed a theatrical model, fostering an egalitarian work culture in which everyone -- male and female -- helped behind the scenes in a variety of jobs. In this culture women thrived in powerful, creative roles, especially as writers, directors, and producers. By the end of that decade, however, mushrooming star salaries and skyrocketing movie budgets prompted the…
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Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood Hardcover - 2006
by Karen Ward Mahar
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- Title Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood
- Author Karen Ward Mahar
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 291
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
- Date October 10, 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780801884368 / 0801884365
- Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.03 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.62 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Women in motion pictures, Women in the motion picture industry -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006002413
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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