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The Red Velvet Seat. Women's Writings on the Cinema - The First Fifty Years.
Antonia (Ed) Lant
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Paperback. Women were centrally involved in cinema throughout the first half of the century, film going was the most important way in which women participated in the era's urban mass culture. However, the significance of women's early contributions have until now remained scant. Editor(s): Lant, Antonia Caroline; Periz, Ingrid. Num Pages: 682 pages, b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 3JJ; APFA; JFFR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 233 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1282.
As viewers, actresses, directors and writers, women have always been central to cinema. However, evidence of their roles has until now remained scant and dispersed, eclipsed by historical opinion written by men. In magisterial scale, Red Velvet Seat restores women's film culture to center stage, using women's written accounts from the beginning of cinema up to 1950. Drawing on fashion and parenting magazines, newspapers and literary journals, memoirs and etiquette guides, and with contributors ranging from Virginia Woolf, Colette, and Rebecca West to psychoanalysts, poets, social reformers, labor organizers, film editors, screen beauties, and race activists, the volume displays the ... Read more
As viewers, actresses, directors and writers, women have always been central to cinema. However, evidence of their roles has until now remained scant and dispersed, eclipsed by historical opinion written by men. In magisterial scale, Red Velvet Seat restores women's film culture to center stage, using women's written accounts from the beginning of cinema up to 1950. Drawing on fashion and parenting magazines, newspapers and literary journals, memoirs and etiquette guides, and with contributors ranging from Virginia Woolf, Colette, and Rebecca West to psychoanalysts, poets, social reformers, labor organizers, film editors, screen beauties, and race activists, the volume displays the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
682
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
896
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781859847220
SKU
V9781859847220
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About Antonia (Ed) Lant
Born in California in 1893, Anita Loos was herself a celebrity of the Jazz Age that produced Lorelei Lee. She began writing movie scripts by the time she was twelve, and before her death in 1981 she had written an enormous number of stories, screenplays, and more. She was also the author of an autobiography, A Girl Like I. Djuna ... Read more
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