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Dear SCREEN-L Subscribers,

We would like to announce a new publication from the University of Illinois Press, which we hope will be of interest.
Movie Mavens
US Newspaper Women Take On the Movies, 1914-1923
Edited by Richard Abel


https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780252086045/movie-mavens/

Receive a 20% discount online*:
CSLF2021
*Valid until 11:59 GMT, 30th June 2022. Discount only applies to the CAP website.

“A revelation! From snarky hard-talking dames to tartly respectable scholars, Movie Mavens recovers the diverse and compelling voices of the legions of newspaperwomen who wrote about movies during the tumultuous 1910s and early 1920s. An invaluable resource from a model film historian.”—Laura Horak, author of Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934
During the early era of cinema, moviegoers turned to women editors and writers for the latest on everyone’s favorite stars, films, and filmmakers. Richard Abel returns these women to film history with an anthology of reviews, articles, and other works. Drawn from newspapers of the time, the selections show how columnists like Kitty Kelly, Mae Tinee, Louella Parsons, and Genevieve Harris wrote directly to female readers. They also profiled women working in jobs like scenario writer and film editor and noted the industry’s willingness to hire women. Sharp wit and frank opinions entertained and informed a wide readership hungry for news about the movies but also about women on both sides of the camera. Abel supplements the texts with hard-to-find biographical information and provides context on the newspapers and silent-era movie industry as well as on the professionals and films highlighted by these writers. An invaluable collection of rare archival sources, Movie Mavens reveals women’s essential contribution to the creation of American film culture.
Richard Abel is a professor emeritus of international cinema and media studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Menus for Movieland: Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture.
With all best wishes,

Combined Academic Publishers



University of Illinois Press | Women & Film History International | September 2021 | 272pp | 9780252086045 | PB | £20.99*
*Price subject to change.



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