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Fire in the Hole: Negative Feelings in Silent Film Fan Communities.

Authors :
Anselmo, Diana W.
Source :
Feminist Media Histories; Winter2024, Vol. 10 Issue 1, p28-56, 29p
Publication Year :
2024

Abstract

Drawing on the letters female fans submitted to Motion Picture Magazine between 1914 and 1918, this article seeks to center negative feelings as a constitutional part of Hollywood reception during the World War I years. Emergent at this time, the language of affective film reception took up a combative tenor reflective of women's lived experiences: anger, derision, and dissent pervade the first-person writings submitted by self-identified movie-loving "misses" and "girls." Reading their published correspondence as proto-manifestations of feminist "troublemakers" and "killjoys" helps in historicizing early Hollywood fandom as an "intimate publics" commercially centered on women's culture, but communally appropriated by female consumers as a means to express antisocial responses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
23737492
Volume :
10
Issue :
1
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Feminist Media Histories
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
174547477
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2024.10.1.28