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Women Film Pioneers Project

Fall 2017 Newsletter



Upcoming Screenings

"Lois Weber: First Auteur": film series at Film Forum in New York, NY. Screening The Dumb Girl of Porticion September 16, 2017. 

"Slapstick Divas: The Women of Silent Comedy": series of shorts presented by Steve Massa at the Library of Congress in Alexandria, VA on September 15. 

"Silent Series": film series screening iconic silent movies, including Wings (co-written by Hope Loring) and Sunrise (co-written by Katharine Hilliker), at the Carolina Theatre in Greensboro, North Carolina. 

​Le Giornate del Cinema Muto (Pordenone Silent Film Festival): international silent film festival held from September 30-October 7 in Pordenone, Italy.
 

Pioneers in the News


Current Calls for Papers

15th Intenational Domitor Conference:
"Provenance and Early Cinema"

Rochester, New York, June 13-16, 2018
Deadline: October 1, 2017

Feminist Media Histories, Special Issue on Asian Media
Deadline: October 1, 2017

Doing Women's Film and Television History IV: "Calling the Shots - Then, Now, and Next" 
University of Southampton, May 23-25, 2018
Deadline: November 3, 2017

Hollywood Heroines: The Most Influential Women in Film History
Deadline: Will be assigned throughout November and early December 2017

Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, Special Issue on the Actress-Manager and Early Film 
Deadline: January 29, 2018
Newly Published Profiles
and
Overview Essays
(Summer/Fall 2017)


Profiles 

​Harriet Bloch (Denmark, Germany, Sweden)
Marvin Breckinridge​ (United States)
Lydia Hayward​ (United Kingdom)​
Elizabeth McGaffey (United States)
Christiane Mendelys  (France)

Asta Nielsen (Denmark, Germany)
Tazuko Sakane (Japan, China)
Eliane Tayar (France)
Fan Xuepeng (China/Hong Kong)

Overview Essays

​"Silent Era Fan Magazines and British Cinema Culture: Mediating Women's Cinemagoing and Storytelling"  by Lisa Stead
 

Coming Soon

New profiles from China, Germany, Spain, and the United States

 

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