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Red Velvet Seat: Women’s Writings on the First Fifty Years of Cinema

Red Velvet Seat: Women’s Writings on the First Fifty Years of Cinema

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A comprehensive anthology of women's film culture, from the origins of cinema to 1950.

As viewers, actresses, directors and writers, women have always been central to cinema. However, evidence of their roles has until now remained scant and dispersed, eclipsed by historical opinion written by men. In magisterial scale, Red Velvet Seat restores women’s film culture to center stage, using women's written accounts from the beginning of cinema up to 1950. Drawing on fashion and parenting magazines, newspapers and literary journals, memoirs and etiquette guides, and with contributors ranging from Virginia Woolf, Colette, and Rebecca West to psychoanalysts, poets, social reformers, labor organizers, film editors, screen beauties, and race activists, the volume displays the full scope of women’s film culture. In each section, editor Antonia Lant with Ingrid Periz provides historical context and links archival accounts to major social and political movements. Comprehensive and absorbing, Red Velvet Seat is an invaluable contribution to the history of cinema.

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Editor: Antonia Lant

Publisher: Verso Books

Contributor(s): Betty Balfour, Djuna Barnes, Iris Barry, Sarah Bernhardt, Elizabeth Bowen, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Maya Deren, Germaine Dulac, Zelda Fitzgerald, Janet Flanner, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Lillian Gish, Fannie Hurst, Milena Jesenska, Anita Loos, Katherine Mansfield, Ingrid Periz, Emily Post, Lotte Reiniger, Dorothy Richardson, Muriel Rukeyser, Marie Stopes, Fredi Washington, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf

Year: 2006

Pages: 896

Language: English

ISBN: 9781859847220

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