Early Women Stars

A Special issue of Camera Obscura

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Edited by Jennifer M. Bean and Diane Negra

Duke University Press

Due/Published December 2001, 224 pages, paper

ISBN 0822365154

A Special issue of Camera Obscura

Contributors. Jennifer Bean, Vicki Callahan, Lucy Fischer, Amelie Hastie, Diane Negra, Gaylyn Studlar, Zhen Zhang

Contents

Technologies of Early Stardom and the Extraordinary Body--Jennifer Bean
Screening Musidora: Inscribing Indeterminacy in Film History--Vicki Callahan
Greta Garbo and Silent Cinema: The Actress as Art Deco Icon--Lucy Fischer
Immigrant Stardom in Imperial America: Pola Negri and the Problem of Typology--Diane Negra
History in Miniature: Colleen Moore's Dollhouse and Historical Recollection--Amelie Hastie
Oh, Doll Divine: Mary Pickford, Masquerade, and the Pedophilic Gaze--Gaylyn Studlar
An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Women as Vernacular Embodiment in Early Chinese Cinema--Zhen Zhang