Researching Women in Silent Cinema: New Findings and Perspectives

Co-edited with Monica Dall’Asta and Lucia Tralli, Researching Women in Silent Cinema: New Findings and Perspectives is a major peer-reviewed, open-access collection that advances feminist film historiography by recovering women’s diverse contributions to early cinema as filmmakers, performers, writers, workers, critics and spectators. Drawing together international scholarship across national cinemas, archival sources and interdisciplinary methods, the volume challenges established accounts of silent film history and demonstrates how questions of gender, performance, labour, modernity and cultural exchange reshape understandings of cinema’s development. I also co-authored the introduction, contributed an original chapter on Sarah Bernhardt’s movement between stage and silent film, and helped establish the Women and Screen Cultures series as a platform for innovative research on women’s contributions to screen media