Subversive discourses in silent films
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https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2012.758n6002Keywords:
Silent film, discourse, subversion, gender, power, censorshipAbstract
“Subversive discourses in silent films” aims to analyse the gender transgression that emerges in certain movies of the silent period. These being silent films, their meaning can only be understood from the content of the images. Directors of the silent period were aware of the importance of images and of their power to put across their views to spectators. The field of filmmaking was new but it was not ungendered, and women filmmakers knew that their films were the vehicle to make spectators aware of their feminist positions. Le matelas alcoolique, La souriante Mme. Beudet and Dora Films of America Shorts are examples of this privilege since, although they belong to two periods of silent film history and have different aims, the directors and the films selected are good examples to be revisited with a gender perspective.
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