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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

Louise Lovely

Matilde Serao

Anne Bauchens

Elvira Notari

Caroline Lejeune

Laura Bayley

Margaret Hepworth

Kate Howarde

Esfir Shub

Mona Donaldson

Margaret Booth

Ada Aline Urban

Agnes Gavin

Thea von Harbou

Señora Spencer

Viola Lawrence

Musidora

Jane Loring

Enid Lorimer

Irene Morra

Dorothea Baird

Ida Jenbach

Carmen Toscano

Blanche Sewell

Rose Smith

The Egede-Nissen Sisters

Gurly Drangsholt

Gwladys, Marchioness of Townshend

Dorothy Gordon

Adriënne Solser

Caroline Frances Pugliese

Josephine Clement

Ruth Goetz

Tsuru Aoki

Leah Baird

Dorothy Arzner

Ruth Ann Baldwin

Marguerite Bertsch

Paula Blackton

Madeline Brandeis

Adele S. Buffington

Mrs. George Randolph Chester

Lenore Coffee

Grace Cunard

Dorothy Davenport Reid

Beulah Marie Dix

Marie Dressler

Mrs. Sidney Drew

Marion Fairfax

Dot Farley

Dorothy Farnum

Flora Finch

Helen Gardner

Gene Gauntier

Lillian Gish

Elinor Glyn

Ethel Grandin

Corinne Griffith

Gale Henry

Helen Holmes

Alice Howell

Julia Crawford Ivers

Osa Johnson

Agnes Christine Johnston

Helen Keller

Bradley King

Florence Lawrence

Marion Leonard

Sonya Levien

Anita Loos

Josephine Lovett

Frederica Sagor Maas

Mary MacLane

Jeanie Macpherson

Cleo Madison

Frances Marion

Sarah Y. Mason

June Mathis

Vera McCord

Bess Meredyth

Beatriz Michelena

Lorna Moon

Jane Murfin

Nancy Naumburg

Alla Nazimova

Mabel Normand

Ida May Park

Frances Taylor Patterson

Olga Petrova

Mary Pickford

Olga Printzlau

Natacha Rambova

Juliet Barrett Rublee

Lillian Case Russell

Nell Shipman

Stella F. Simon

Anita Stewart

Ruth Stonehouse

Alice Terry

Gertrude Homan Thanhouser

Margaret Turnbull

Florence Turner

Eve Unsell

Valda Valkyrien

Lule Warrenton

Lois Weber

Clare West

Pearl White

Kathlyn Williams

Elsie Jane Wilson

Margery Wilson

Anzia Yezierska

Dorothy Yost

Clara Kimball Young

Cube Bonifant

Cándida Beltrán Rendón

Mimí Derba

Adriana and Dolores Ehlers

Elena Sánchez Valenzuela

Carmen Santos

Adela Sequeyro

Elizabeth B. Grimball

Gabriela von Bussenius Vega

Adelina Barrasa

Marion E. Wong

Teresita Arce

Maria Isabel Sánchez Concha Aramburú

Ángela Ramos de Rotalde

Rosario Rodríguez de la Serna

Alicia Armstrong de Vicuña

Fay Tincher

Gloria Swanson

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

Beta Breuil

Hope Loring

Kate Corbaley

Sada Cowan

Beatrice deMille

Lucy Duff-Gordon

Lillian Ducey

Winifred Dunn

Margaret Mayo

Gladys Rosson

Gertrude Atherton

Hettie Gray Baker

Texas Guinan

Wanda Tuchock

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

May Clark

Nell Emerald

Mae Murray

Emilia Saleny

Aleksandra Khokhlova

Esther Eng

Daisy Sylvan

Caroline van Dommelen

Alva Lundin

Pu Shunqing

Fanchon Royer

Marie Louise Gagner

Jenny Strömberg

Elsa Chauvel

Cissy Fitzgerald

Esterina Zuccarone

Mary Manning

Iris Barry

Marie de Kerstrat

Emma Gendron

Fabienne Fabrèges

Sarah Bernhardt

Encarnacion Rosa Scott

Fernanda Nissen

Elvira Giallanella

Maude Adams

Ray Lewis

Alma Reville

Ol'ga Rakhmanova

Gerda Hintze

Beatrice Maude Tildesley

Gladys Hall

Marie Stopes

Mary Murillo

Lydia Hayward

Ellen O’Mara Sullivan

Rosa Porten

Lotte Reiniger

Nina Agadzhanova-Shutko

Dorothea Mitchell

Georgette Méliès

Haydée Chikly

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

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