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The Othering of Women in Silent Film

Cultural, Historical, and Literary Contexts
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In The Othering of Women in Silent Film: Cultural, Historical, and Literary Contexts, Barbara Tepa Lupack explores the rampant racial and gender stereotyping depicted in early cinema, demonstrating how those stereotypes helped shape American attitudes and practices. Using social, cultural, literary, and cinema history as a focus, this book offers insights into issues of Othering, including discrimination, exclusion, and sexism, that are as timely today as they were a century ago. Lupack not only examines the ways that dominant cinema of the era imprinted indelible and pejorative images of women-including African Americans, Native Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and New Women/Suffragists-but also reveals the ways in which a number of pioneering early filmmakers and performers attempted to counter those depictions by challenging the imagery, interrogating the stereotypes, and re-politicizing the familiar narratives. Scholars of film, gender, history, and race studies will find this book of particular interest.
Barbara Tepa Lupack is former professor of English at St. John's University and academic dean at SUNY.
Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Note on Terminology and Usage Introduction Chapter 1: African Americans Chapter 2: African Americans: Race Films Chapter 3: Native Americans Chapter 4: Native Americans: Native Responses Chapter 5: Latins Chapter 6: Asians Chapter 7: The New Woman Chapter 8: Suffragists Conclusion Bibliography About the Author
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