1913 E2 - Shelley Stamp
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In this 100th episode, Tristan Ettleman interviews Shelley Stamp about women's representation in early American cinema and her insights on landmark films from 1913.
This is the 100th episode and just two weeks past the second anniversary of The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever! It’s a special episode made even more so by Shelley Stamp, Distinguished Professor of Film & Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She literally wrote the book on Lois Weber so it makes sense that pioneering filmmaker’s landmark 1913 film factors into the conversation, but all of Shelley's picks reflect the rapid development of American film grammar and stand in for women’s representation in front of and behind the camera, as well as their fights for equality in “real life.” Shelley is also the author of Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon . She curated the award-winning box set Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers . Visit the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own top five for 1913! Films mentioned: What 80 Million Women Want (1913) - Will Louis Traffic in Souls (1913) - George Loane Tucker A House Divided (1913) - Alice Guy-Blaché Suspense (1913) - Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley The Adventures of Kathlyn (1913) - Francis J. Grandon Hypocrites (1915) - Lois Weber The Perils of Pauline (1914)…
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