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Women and the Silent Screen VII Conference, University of Melbourne

Book Publication-Exporting Perilous Pauline: Pearl White and Serial Film Craze

Their First Misunderstanding (1911)-Recent Mary Pickford film find!

Women Film Pioneers Project in the News!

Women Film Pioneers Project Launched at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City!

Call for Papers- Women and the Silent Screen VIII 2015

Nell Shipman Documentary Premieres at NYCIFF, Bentonville Film Festival, and more!

A.C.L.U., Citing Bias Against Women, Wants Inquiry Into Hollywood’s Hiring Practices

Women & the Silent Screen VIII, University of Pittsburgh, September 17-19, 2015

"Dorothy Arzner: A Retrospective" at UCLA Film & Television Archive, July 31-September 18, 2015

Upcoming Film Restoration: "Mothers of Men" (1917), starring Dorothy Davenport Reid!

Publication: Women & the Silent Screen VII Special Dossier, Screening the Past Issue 40!

"Esther Eng and Other Challenges to Women and World Cinema," February 4-6, 2016, Columbia University

Conference: "Transformations I: Cinema & Media Studies Research Meets Digital Humanities Tools," April 15-16, 2016, NYU

Conference: Doing Women’s Film and Television History III: Structures of Feeling, May 18-20, 2016

Call for Papers: 11th Seminar on the Origins and History of Cinema: "Presences and Representations of Women in the Early Years of Cinema."

Film Series: "Woman with a Movie Camera," September 15-28, 2016, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY

Restoration: Two films by Lois Weber coming this fall!

Recent Press Mentions: The Women Film Pioneers Project in the News!

Call for Papers: Women and the Silent Screen IX: "Histories, Her-stories, and Methods"

Film Screening: "Lost Visionaries of the Silent Screen: Highlights from the Women Film Pioneers Project," November 11, University of Chicago

"Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers" Kickstarter Campaign

Lois Weber's The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916) screens at Anthology Film Archives, December 16-18, 2016!

Recent press about the restoration of Lois Weber's The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916)!

Call for Papers: Feminist Media Histories “Gender and Labor in Media Histories” (due Jan. 15, 2017)

"Women Who Run Hollywood Screening & Panel," Athena Film Festival, February 11, 2017

New York Feminist Film Week, Anthology Film Archives, March 7-12, 2017

Pioneer Profiles

The Talmadge Sisters

Jenny Gilbertson

Bessie Barriscale

Blanche MacIntosh

Carmen Cartellieri

Jackeydawra Melford

Jessica Elvira Borthwick

Caroline Lejeune

Margaret Hepworth

Ada Aline Urban

Thea von Harbou

Señora Spencer

The Egede-Nissen Sisters

Gurly Drangsholt

Gwladys, Marchioness of Townshend

Adriënne Solser

Caroline Frances Pugliese

Josephine Clement

Ruth Ann Baldwin

Marguerite Bertsch

Madeline Brandeis

Adele S. Buffington

Mrs. George Randolph Chester

Dorothy Davenport Reid

Beulah Marie Dix

Mrs. Sidney Drew

Corinne Griffith

Julia Crawford Ivers

Agnes Christine Johnston

Florence Lawrence

Josephine Lovett

Frederica Sagor Maas

Jeanie Macpherson

Beatriz Michelena

Frances Taylor Patterson

Natacha Rambova

Juliet Barrett Rublee

Lillian Case Russell

Stella F. Simon

Ruth Stonehouse

Gertrude Homan Thanhouser

Margaret Turnbull

Florence Turner

Valda Valkyrien

Kathlyn Williams

Elsie Jane Wilson

Anzia Yezierska

Clara Kimball Young

Cándida Beltrán Rendón

Adriana and Dolores Ehlers

Elena Sánchez Valenzuela

Elizabeth B. Grimball

Gabriela von Bussenius Vega

Adelina Barrasa

Maria Isabel Sánchez Concha Aramburú

Ángela Ramos de Rotalde

Rosario Rodríguez de la Serna

Alicia Armstrong de Vicuña

Adela Rogers St. Johns

Josephine Rector

Elizabeth Chevalier Pickett

Stefanía Socha

Marian Constance Blackton

Bertha Muzzy Bower

Alice Guy Blaché

Katharine Hilliker

Eugenie Magnus Ingleton

Maibelle Heikes Justice

Annette Kellerman

Beatrice deMille

Lucy Duff-Gordon

Gertrude Atherton

Hettie Gray Baker

Ruth Bryan Owen

Louella Parsons and Harriet Parsons

Drusilla Dunjee Houston

Tressie Souders

Maria P. Williams

Thea Červenková

The McDonagh Sisters

Henderina Victoria Scott

Eloyce King Patrick Gist

Alice B. Russell

Zora Neale Hurston

Eslanda Robeson

Aleksandra Khokhlova

Caroline van Dommelen

Marie Louise Gagner

Jenny Strömberg

Cissy Fitzgerald

Esterina Zuccarone

Marie de Kerstrat

Fabienne Fabrèges

Sarah Bernhardt

Encarnacion Rosa Scott

Fernanda Nissen

Elvira Giallanella

Ol'ga Rakhmanova

Beatrice Maude Tildesley

Ellen O’Mara Sullivan

Nina Agadzhanova-Shutko

Dorothea Mitchell

Georgette Méliès

Anna Hofman-Uddgren

Overview Essays

How Women Worked in the US Silent Film Industry

Working Partnerships

Women’s Production and Preproduction Companies

Women Scenario Editors

Screenwriting Manuals

Exhibition Summary

Editors’ Summary

Women in Chilean Silent Cinema

Metro Pictures Corporation, Weekly Payroll, 1915-1920

French Film Colorists

Cutting Women: Margaret Booth and Hollywood’s Pioneering Female Film Editors

Exhibiting Women: Gender, Showmanship, and the Professionalization of Film Exhibition in the United States, 1900–1930

The Absence of Canadian Women in the Silent Picture Industry

African-American Women in the Silent Film Industry

Writing the History of Latin American Women Working in the Silent Film Industry

Women as Camera Operators or “Cranks”

Women in Argentine Silent Cinema

Newspaperwomen and the Movies in the USA, 1914-1925

All in the Family: The Thanhouser Studio

Other Content

Overview Essays

About the Project

Unhistoricized Women Film Pioneers

Archival Paper Collections at BFI-SC: Lotte Reiniger

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