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Author: Laura Horak

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The Nasty Women of Silent Cinema

Maggie Hennefeld and Laura Horak

The nasty women of silent cinema represent crucial traces of feminist media culture from the early twentieth century—and reveal the power of new media to make visible transformative notions of femininity and female identity.

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