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Cinema's first nasty women
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.
Publication
New York, NY : Kino Classics, [2022]
Physical Description
4 videodiscs (875 min.) : silent, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Title from sell sheet.
Music supervisor, Dana Reason.
Introductions in English; Silent films with various language intertitles and musical accompaniment; English, French and Spanish subtitles.
Summary
The four-disc set showcase more than fourteen hours of rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. These women organize labor strikes, bake 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.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English; Multiple languages
Added to Catalog
January 09, 2023
Credits
Music supervisor, Dana Reason.
Cast
Leontine, Florence Turner, Texas Guinan, Fay Tincher, Gene Gauntier, Mabel Taliaferro, Bertha Regustus, Sarah Duhamel, Evelyn Greeley, Laura Bayley, Edna "Billy" Foster, Tsuru Aoki.
System details note
Blu-ray; requires Blu-ray player.
Contents
Disc 1. Léontine ; Lea ; Catastophe in the kitchen ; Catastrophe beyond the kitchen
Disc 2. Cunégonde ; Rosalie ; Pétronille ; Tyranny at home
Disc 3. The girl spy ; Edna "Billy" Foster ; Gender frontiers
Disc 4. Don't believe your eyes ; The snowbird ; Phil-for-short ; Topsy-turvy gender madness.
Booklet. 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
Film credits and notes
Suggested readings
Project credits
Special thanks.
Videorecording number
K25901 Kino Classics
Genre/Form
Comedy films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
LGBTQ+ films.
Comedy films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
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