News
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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