| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood. By Karen Ward Mahar. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii, 291 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-8436-5.)

In Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood, Karen Ward Mahar sheds important new light on a widely known, if understudied, paradigm in U.S. film history: the emergence of truly heterosocial workplaces in which women enjoyed myriad employment opportunities behind the cameras, from the dawn of "nickel madness" to the rise of the classic Hollywood studio system in the mid-1920s. By the advent of sound in the late 1920s, a "remasculinization of filmmaking" had occurred, and women disappeared from the directing, editing, and producing ranks and were relegated largely to costume design, secretarial work, and screenwriting (p. viii).

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