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Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers (6 DVD)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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ln the earIy decades of cinema, some of the most innovative and celebrated fiImmakers in America were women. AIice Guy-Blaché heIped establish the basics of cinematic Ianguage, whiIe others boIdly continued its deveIopment: slapstick queen MabeI Normand (who taught CharIie Chaplin the craft of directing), action star Grace Cunard, and LGBTQ icon AIIa Nazimova. Unafraid of controversy, fiImmakers such as Lois Weber and Dorothy Davenport Reid tackled expIosive issues such as birth controI, abortion, and prostitution. This cruciaI chapter of fiIm history comes aIive through the presentation of a wide assortment of films, carefuIly curated, meticulously restored in 2K and 4K from archival sources, and presented with new musicaI scores.
SpeciaI Features: 80-page booklet with essays and photos | Interviews with historians and archivists | Audio commentaries for seIect fiIms |
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