Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Nell Shipman, Cinematograph Films Act 1927, Judy Lamarsh

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G
• Professor: Daniel Robinson

Document Summary

Armatage, girl from god"s country: nell shipman and the silent cinema p. 266-271. Nell shipman left home at 13 to become an actress with a small touring company. Her mother went with her to take care of her. The ball of yarn = her first film (it was awful) An outdoor yarn" was the first film she directed; god"s country and the woman was the first successful film she stared in she was known as the girl from god"s country" from then on. Her company nell shipman productions formed in 1921. She made independent movies with her crew in the wilderness of idaho. 1908: nyc was an established film exchange row"; huge distributing companies formed. The exhibition and distribution circuits that remained unaffiliated with studios were closed town. Women represented in films were either damsels in distress or powerful and independent. They were rarely the rescuer construction of female subjectivity.