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Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Toward a Feminist Historiography of Early Cinema / Jennifer M. Bean 1

I. Reflecting Film Authorship

Circuits of Memory and History: The Memoirs of Alice Guy-Blache / Amelie Hastie 29

Nazimova's Veils: Salome at the Intersection of Film Histories / Patricia White 60

Of Cabbages and Authors / Jane M. Gaines 88

Reevaluating Footnotes: Women Directors of the Silent Era / Radha Vatsal 119

II. Ways of Looking

The Gender of Empire: American Modernity, Masculinity, and Edison's War Actualities / Kristen Whissel 141

Making Ends Meet: "Welfare Films" and the Politics of Consumption during the Progressive Era / Constance Balides 166

Irma Vep, Vamp in the City: Mapping the Criminal Feminine in Early French Serials / Kristine J. Butler 195

The Flapper Film: Comedy, Dance, and Jazz Age Kinaesthetics / Lori Landay 221

III. Cultural Inversions

The Queer Career of Jim Crow: Racial and Sexual Transformation in A Florida Enchantment / Siobhan B. Somerville 251

Taking Precautions, or Regulating Early Birth-Control Films / Shelley Stamp 270

The New Woman and Consumer Culture: Cecil B. DeMille's Sex Comedies / Sumiko Higashi 298

"So Real as to Seem Like Life Itself": The Photoplay Fiction of Adela Rogers St. Johns / Anne Morey 333

IV. Performing Bodies

Oh, "Doll Divine": Mary Pickford, Masquerade, and the Pedophilic Gaze / Gaylyn Studlar 349

Immigrant Stardom in Imperial America: Pola Negri and the Problem of Typology / Diane Negra 374

Technologies of early Stardom and the Extraordinary Body / Jennifer M. Bean 404

Femininity in Flight: Androgyny and Gynandry in Early Silent Italian Cinema / Angela Dalle Vacche 444

Greta Garbo and Silent Cinema: The Actress as Art Deco Icon / Lucy Fischer 476

V. The Problem with Periodization
An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: The Actress as Vernacular Embodiment in Early Chinese Film Culture / Zhang Zhen 501

Technology's Body: Cinematic Vision in Modernity / Mary Ann Doane 530

Parallax Historiography: The Flaneuse as Cyberfeminist / Catherine Russell 552

Contributors 571

Index 575