Irma Vep, Vamp in the City: Mapping the Criminal Feminine in Early French Serials

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Toward a Feminist Historiography of Early Cinema 1
5. I Reflecting Film Authorship
6. Circuits of Memory and History: The Memoirs of Alice Guy-Blaché 29
7. Nazimova’s Veils: Salome at the Intersection of Film Histories 60
8. Of Cabbages and Authors 88
9. Reevaluating Footnotes Women Directors of the Silent Era 119
10. II Ways of Looking
11. The Gender of Empire: American Modernity, Masculinity, and Edison’sWar Actualities 141
12. Making Ends Meet: ‘‘Welfare Films’’ and the Politics of Consumption during the Progressive Era 166
13. Irma Vep, Vamp in the City: Mapping the Criminal Feminine in Early French Serials 195
14. The Flapper Film: Comedy, Dance, and Jazz Age Kinaesthetics 221
15. III Cultural Inversions
16. The Queer Career of Jim Crow: Racial and Sexual Transformation in A Florida Enchantment 251
17. Taking Precautions, or Regulating Early Birth-Control Films 270
18. The NewWoman and Consumer Culture: Cecil B. DeMille’s Sex Comedies 298
19. ‘‘So Real as to Seem Like Life Itself ’’: The Photoplay Fiction of Adela Rogers St. Johns 333
20. IV Performing Bodies
21. Oh, ‘‘Doll Divine’’: Mary Pickford, Masquerade, and the Pedophilic Gaze 349
22. Immigrant Stardom in Imperial America: Pola Negri and the Problem of Typology 374
23. Technologies of Early Stardom and the Extraordinary Body 404
24. Femininity in Flight: Androgyny and Gynandry in Early Silent Italian Cinema 444
25. Greta Garbo and Silent Cinema: The Actress as Art Deco Icon 476
26. V The Problem with Periodization
27. An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: The Actress as Vernacular Embodiment in Early Chinese Film Culture 501
28. Technology’s Body: Cinematic Vision in Modernity 530
29. Parallax Historiography: The Flâneuse as Cyberfeminist 552
30. Contributors 571
31. Index 575