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2022

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:	Cinema's first nasty women / curated by Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi ; produced for video by Bret Wood ; Kino Lorber, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Women Film Pioneers Project, Eye Filmmuseum, FIC-Silente, and Carleton University.
Publisher, Date:	New York, NY : Kino Classics, [2022] ©2022
Description:	4 videodiscs (875 min.) : sound, black and white and black and white with color tinting ; 4 3/4 in. digital optical video file DVD video
Summary:	"This four-disc set showcases more than fourteen hours of rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. These women organize labor strikes, bake (and weponize) inedible desserts, explode out of chimneys, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints. The films span a variety of genres including slapstick comedy, genteel farce, the trick film, cowboy melodrama, and adventure thriller. Cinema's First Nasty Women includes 99 European and American silent films, produced from 1898 to 1926, sourced from thirteen international film archives and libraries, with all-new musical scores, video introductions, commentary tracks, and a lavishly illustrated booklet."--Container.
Target Audience Note:	Rating: Not rated.
Subjects:	Feminism -- Drama. Women -- Drama. Sex role -- Drama. Silent films -- History and criticism.
Genre:	Feature films. Short films. Silent films. Comedy films. Action and adventure films. Western films.
Other Author:	Hennefeld, Maggie, 1984- curator, onscreen presenter. Horak, Laura, curator, onscreen presenter. Rongen-Kaynakçi, Elif, curator, onscreen presenter. Wood, Bret, film producer. Reason, Dana, musical director. Léontine, actor. Turner, Florence, actor. Guinan, Texas, actor. Tincher, Fay, actor. Gauntier, Gene, 1885-1966, actor. Taliaferro, Mabel, 1889-1979, actor. Regustus, Bertha, actor. Duhamel, Sarah, actor. Greeley, Evelyn, actor. Bayley, Laura, actor. Foster, Edna, actor. Aoki, Tsuru, 1892-1961, actor. Kino Lorber, Inc., production company. Associazione Le Giornate del cinema muto, production company. Women Film Pioneers Project, production company. Eye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands), production company. FIC-Silente, production company. Carleton University, production company. Kino Classics (Firm), publisher.
Notes:	Special features: Video introduction featuring series curators Laura Horak, Maggie Hennefeld and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi; eleven video introductions to films and performers, featuring Liza Black, Macinam Jean Cuthand, Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, Dana Reason, Arigon Starr, Susan Stryker, and Kyla Wazana Tompkins; QR code for .pdf of 116-page booklet with essays, interviews, photos, and detailed film notes; audio commentaries for select films. Music supervisor, Dana Reason. Leontine, Florence Turner, Texas Guinan, Fay Tincher, Gene Gauntier, Mabel Taliaferro, Bertha Regustus, Sarah Duhamel, Evelyn Greeley, Laura Bayley, Edna "Billy" Foster, Tsuru Aoki. DVD, all regions NTSC, full screen (1.33:1); stereo; B&W and B&W with color tinting. Introductions in English; Silent films with various language intertitles and musical accompaniment; English, French and Spanish subtitles.
Contents:	Léontine ; Lea ; Catastophe in the kitchen ; Catastrophe beyond the kitchen -- Cunégonde ; Rosalie ; Pétronille ; Tyranny at home -- The girl spy ; Edna "Billy" Foster ; Gender frontiers -- Don't believe your eyes ; The snowbird ; Phil-for-short ; Topsy-turvy gender madness. Introduction to Cinema's first nasty women / Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak & Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi -- Anti-racist apporaches to curating silent cinema / Renée C. Baker, Liza Black, Eliot Britton, Enrique Ceballos, Jan Michael Looking Wolf Reibach, Cecilia Ramírez Morales, Charlene Regester, Yiman Wang -- Scoring Cinema's first nasty women / Dana Reason -- Bertha Regustus and the Black women of silent comedy / Charlene Regester -- Minnie Devereaux / Liza Black -- Lilian St. Cyr / Liza Black -- Léotine / Maggie Hennefeld -- Little Chrysia / Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi -- Edna "Billy" Foster / Laura Horak --
ISBN:	9786318812962 : DVD 6318812962 : DVD
Publisher Number:	K25925
Other Number:	1334496339
System Availability:	3
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	3
Control Number:	996937
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# System items in:	3
Call Number:	DVD MOVIE Cinema's

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