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UNINA9910780413103321 |
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Autore |
Armatage Kay |
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Titolo |
The girl from God's country : Nell Shipman and the silent cinema / / Kay Armatage |
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Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2003 |
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©2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-03692-0 |
9786612036927 |
1-4426-8137-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (437 p.) |
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Collana |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Women directors of the silent era: the scholarship -- Women with megaphones -- Back to God's country -- Something new -- The girl from God's country -- The grub-stake -- Bits and pieces -- Tissue-paper tower -- Naked on the palisades. |
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"In The Girl from God's Country, Kay Armatage reintroduces film studies scholars to Nell Shipman, a pioneer in both Canadian and American film, and one of proportionately numerous women from Hollywood's silent era who wrote, directed, produced, and acted in motion pictures. Born and raised in British Columbia, Shipman became a contract actress for Vitagraph Studios, starring in God's Country and the Woman (1915) and Back to God's Country (1919), among other films. These action-packed adventure melodramas, in which the heroine is called upon to rescue her husband and defeat the villain, were immensely successful. Later, Shipman started up her own production company to make films centred on her screen persona, 'the girl from God's country.' By the mid-1920s, however, the formation of the large Hollywood studios and vertical integration closed down the |
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independents, Shipman among them. Nevertheless, she continued writing until her death in 1970"--Jacket |
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