Cupboards of Curiosity

Klappentext Examines the writings and collections of early women film stars such as Colleen Moore and Louise Brooks in order to provide a greater analysis of their contributions to film history. Zusammenfassung Amelie Hastie rethinks female authorship within film history by expanding the historical archive to include dollhouses! scrapbooks! memoirs! cookbooks! and ephemera.

Autorentext

Amelie Hastie is Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a member of the Camera Obscura editorial collective.

Klappentext

"In Amelie Hastie's meditative and original book, the era of silent film speaks through the writings and collections of the women who made the movies--stars, directors, writers--some forgotten, most remembered for their images, not their words. Hastie models her approach to writing and theorizing film history on the novel ways her subjects themselves made history: loving attention to the fleeting and the fragmentary illuminates theories of female agency within mass-mediated modernity."--Patricia White, author of "Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability "

Zusammenfassung
Amelie Hastie rethinks female authorship within film history by expanding the historical archive to include dollhouses, scrapbooks, memoirs, cookbooks, and ephemera.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The Collaborator: At the Cupboards of Film History 1

1. The Collector:Material Histories, Colleen Moore’s Dollhouse, and Ephemeral Recollection 19
2. The Historian: Autobiography, Memory, and Film Form 72
3. The Critic: Louise Brooks, Star Witness 104
4. The Expert: Celebrity Knowledge and the How-tos of Film Studies 155
   Notes 195
   Bibliography 225
   Index 239