Description This magisterial book offers comprehensive accounts of the professional itineraries of three Women in the Silent film in the Netherlands, France and North America.
About the Author Annette Forster is a media historian and film curator specialized in Women in film history..
Annette Forster presents a careful assessment of the long career of Dutch stage and film actress Adri nne Solser; an exploration of the stage and screen careers of French actress and filmmaker Musidora and Canadian-born actress and filmmaker Nell Shipman; an analysis of the interaction between the popular stage and the Silent cinema from the perspective of Women at work in both realms; fresh insights into Dutch stage and screen comedy, the French revue and the American Northwest drama of the 1910s; and much more, all grounded in a wealth of archival research.
Description This magisterial book offers comprehensive accounts of the professional itineraries of three Women in the Silent film in the Netherlands, France and North America
