Ep 29 - Women in Early Pre-Code Hollywood

This episode is all about women in pre-Code Hollywood, and how a couple Catholic men and the Production Code Administration changed the course of the American film industry forever. What was the role of women in the early days of film? What about people of color? Was representation just as bad then? Who were some successful women in the early film industry? Listen to find out! I'm your host, Mixtape Majesty, inviting you to this solo mixtape as we dive into the early days of Hollywoodland.

Sources and Further Reading

• Beauchamp, Cari. Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood. New York: Scribner, 1997.
• Blaetz, Robin. “Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television, vol. 29, no. 2, June 2009, pp. 258–260.
• Cooper, Mark Garrett. Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood. University of Illinois Press, 2014.
• Feeley, Kathleen. The Journal of American History, vol. 98, no. 1, 2011, pp. 224–225. JSTOR.
• Gaines, Jane M. Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?, University of Illinois Press, Urbana; Chicago; Springfield, 2018, pp. 16–32.
• Hallet, A. Hilary. How Women Built Early Hollywood – And Transformed Los Angeles. KCET.org. November 7, 2017.
• Koszarski, Richard. An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915–1928 (University of California Press, 1994): 223.
• Kurtz, Steve. “Hollywood’s Second Sex.” Reason, vol. 33, no. 10, Mar. 2002, p. 75.
• LaSalle, Mick. Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood. 2000.
• Slide, Anthony. Early Women Filmmakers: The Real Numbers. Film History, Vol. 24, No. 1, Film Histories (2012), pp. 114-121
• Smith, Frederick James. "Unwept, Unhonored and Unfilmed". Photoplay. July 1924: 67 & 101 – via Lantern.

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