Preface
Introduction: Making Movies and Incorporating Gender
Prologue: The Greatest Electrical Novelty in the World: Gender and Filmmaking before the Turn of the Century
Part One: Expansion, Stardom & Uplift: Women Enter the American Movie Industry, 1908-1916
1. A Quiet Invasion: Nickelodeons, Narratives, and the First Women in Film
2. To Get Some of the 'Good Gravy' for Themselves Stardom, Features, and the First Star-Producers
3. So Much More Natural to a Woman: Gender, Uplift, and the Woman Filmmaker
Interlude: Women in Serials & Short Comedies, 1912-1922
4. The Girls Who Play: The Short Film and the New Woman
Part Two: A Business Pure & Simple: The End of Uplift and the Masculinization of Hollywood, 1916-1928
5. The Real Punches: Lois Weber, Cecil B. DeMille, and the End of the Uplift Movement
6. A 'Her-Own-Company' Epidemic: Stars as Independent Producers
7. Doing a 'Man's Work': The Rise of the Studio System and the Remasculinization of Filmmaking
Epilogue
Getting Away with It
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index