Movie-Struck Girls : : Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon / / Shelley Stamp.

Movie-Struck Girls examines women's films and filmgoing in the 1910s, a period when female patronage was energetically courted by the industry for the first time. By looking closely at how women were invited to participate in movie culture, the films they were offered, and the visual pleasures...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • One. Spare Us One Evening: Cultivating Cinema's Female Audience
  • Two. Is Any Girl Safe? Motion Pictures, Women's Leisure, and the White Slavery Scare
  • Three. Ready-Made Customers: Female Movie Fans and the Serial Craze
  • Four. Civic Housekeeping: Women's Suffrage, Female Viewers, and the Body Politic
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index