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Go west, young women
2013,2012
Overview
In the early part of the twentieth century, migrants made their way from rural homes to cities in record numbers and many traveled west. Los Angeles became a destination. Women flocked to the growing town to join the film industry as workers and spectators, creating a \"New Woman.\" Their efforts transformed filmmaking from a marginal business to a cosmopolitan, glamorous, and bohemian one. By 1920, Los Angeles had become the only western city where women outnumbered men. In Go West, Young Women, Hilary A. Hallett explores these relatively unknown new western women and their role in the development of Los Angeles and the nascent film industry. From Mary Pickford's rise to become perhaps the most powerful woman of her age, to the racist moral panics of the post–World War I years that culminated in Hollywood's first sex scandal, Hallett describes how the path through early Hollywood presaged the struggles over modern gender roles that animated the century to come.
Publisher
University of California Press
Subject
/ early modern american history
/ feminism
/ film capital of the united states
/ HISTORY
/ HISTORY / United States / General
/ Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
/ Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History -- 20th century
/ Motion picture actors and actresses
/ Motion picture actors and actresses -- California -- Los Angeles
/ Motion pictures and women -- United States
/ PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General
/ sex
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
/ Women in the motion picture industry
/ Women in the motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
ISBN
0520274083, 9780520274099, 0520274091, 9780520274082, 0520953681, 9780520953680
