Cinema's First Nasty Women
- Year
- 2022
- Description
- Curated by Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi.
Includes 99 silent short films and fragments from Denmark, England, France, Italy, Sweden, and the United States that were produced from 1896 to 1926. Discs are organized by character and theme. - Producer
- Wood, Bret
- Production Team
- Kino Classics
- Genre
- Short Film
Comedy
Drama - Content Notes
- Disc 1: Disastrous Domestics and Anarchic Tomboys. Features the characters Léontine and Lea and includes the themed sections "Catastrophe in the Kitchen" and "Catastrophe beyond the Kitchen." Disc 2: Queens of Destruction. Features the characters Cunégonde, Rosalie, and Pétronille and includes the themed section "Tyranny at Home." Disc 3: Gender Rebels. Includes the three-part film series The Girl Spy, four films starring Edna "Billy" Foster, and the themed section "Gender Frontiers." Disc 4: Female Tricksters. Includes the themed sections "Don't Believe Your Eyes," "Romance in Disguise," and "Topsy Turvy Gender Madness."
- Language
- Silent with some English intertitles
- Media Format
- 4 DVDs (875 min.) or 4 Blu-ray discs (875 min.)
- Type
- Black and white and black and white with color tinting
- Additional Content
- A booklet is available.
- Updated
- 02-21-2023
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