Introduction: what Gertrude Stein wonders about historians -- What happened to women in the silent U.S. film industry? -- Where was Antonia Dickson? the peculiarity of historical time -- More fictions: did Alice Guy Blaché make La fée aux choux (The cabbage fairy)? -- Object les…
"Women held more positions of power in the silent film era than at any other time in American motion picture history. Marion Leonard broke from acting to cofound a feature film company. Gene Gauntier, the face of Kalem Films, also wrote the first script of Ben-Hur . Helen Holmes…
"Can filmed history measure up to written history? What happens to history when it is recorded in images, rather than words? Can images convey ideas and information that lie beyond words? Taking on these timely questions, Robert Rosenstone pioneers a new direction in the relatio…
