Lois Weber
The Director Who Lost Her Way in History
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Lois Weber (1882-1939) was the first native-born, American, female film director, active from the early 1910s through into the 1930s. She was a remarkable woman, an auteur (director, screenwriter and star) and an individual with a strong moral perspective. She believed that the motion picture should be used to propagandize and educate viewers, and used her films as preachments on birth control, hypocrisy in religion, politics and business, the death penalty, and women's rights. She was the most prominent filmmaker at Universal in the 1910s, chosen by the studio to direct the great Anna Pavlova in her only starring role in The Dumb Girl of Portici (1913). Lois Weber: The Director Who Lost Her Way in History is the first and only biography of this incredible pioneering woman. It makes fascinating reading and is of major importance in the study of women in film.
About the Author:
ANTHONY SLIDE is the author or editor of more than 50 books on the history of popular entertainment. His works include Early American Cinema, The Films of D.W. Griffith (co-authored with Edward Wagenknecht), The American Film Industry: A Historical Dictionary (Greenwood, 1986), Nitrate Won't Wait: A History of Film Preservation in the United States, and The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville (Greenwood, 1994). His interest in women in film dates back to 1977, when he published Early Women Directors. He edited The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blache, and in 1993, he wrote, co-produced, and directed the feature-length documentary The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors. In 1990, Slide was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by Bowling Green University.
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