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  1. "The study reports that from 1910-1930, 10.9% of feature film credits were attributed to women writers, directors and producers. During that same period, over 27.5% of women were credited as writers or co-writers; 19.6% of feature films were based on source material written by women; and films directed by women during this time period were 31% more likely to have female writers".

    #EarlyFilm #SilentFilm #SilentEra #Women #WomenInFilm #WomenFilmmakers #Cinemastodon

    variety.com/2023/film/news/wom

  2. "Lukács interestingly documents the extent to which some Nazis even acknowledged the absurdity of their own doctrines, cynically admitting its use as an ideological justification for imperialism on a vast scale. What mattered was less the “truth” of the Nazi race doctrine and more its capacity to “elevate” the German people."

    An insightful review of The Destruction of Reason via: jacobin.com/2023/09/georg-luka

    #Politics #Philosophy #GeorgLukács #Fascism #Socialism #Marxism

  3. Gorgeous movie poster for Stronger than Death (1920) directed by Herbert Blaché and starring the great Alla Nazimova.

    It seems that a print of this film exists in the George Eastman Museum Film Archive but alas it hasn't been released!

    #SilentFilm #SilentMovie #ClassicFilm #Cinemastodon #Vintage #AllaNazimova

  4. Gorgeous movie poster for Stronger than Death (1920) directed by Herbert Blaché and starring the great Alla Nazimova.

    It seems that a print of this film exists in the George Eastman Museum Film Archive but alas it hasn't been released!

    #SilentFilm #SilentMovie #ClassicFilm #Cinemastodon #Vintage #AllaNazimova

  5. Gorgeous movie poster for Stronger than Death (1920) directed by Herbert Blaché and starring the great Alla Nazimova.

    It seems that a print of this film exists in the George Eastman Museum Film Archive but alas it hasn't been released!

    #SilentFilm #SilentMovie #ClassicFilm #Cinemastodon #Vintage #AllaNazimova

  6. Gorgeous movie poster for Stronger than Death (1920) directed by Herbert Blaché and starring the great Alla Nazimova.

    It seems that a print of this film exists in the George Eastman Museum Film Archive but alas it hasn't been released!

    #SilentFilm #SilentMovie #ClassicFilm #Cinemastodon #Vintage #AllaNazimova

  7. #BOTD in 1893, Conrad Veidt on the cover of Pour Vous magazine, as the bizarrely fascinating Baron von Kempelen from the 1938 French film Le Joueur d'échecs.

    The sheer intensity...

    #ConradVeidt #ClassicFilm #OldMovies #Cinemastodon #Vintage

  8. Well, for those of you out there who might be interested, it seems that Sabine Schwientek's book Dämon der Leinwand: Conrad Veidt und der
    deutsche Film 1894–1945, has been translated to English and is available for pre-order here :

    mcfarlandbooks.com/product/con

    Although its reception has been at best controversial, I think we can all agree that a new Conrad Veidt study is more than welcome!

    #SilentMovie #SilentFilm #GermanCinema #ConradVeidt #Books #Bookstodon

  9. "In Summer of Fire and Blood, the first history of the German Peasants’ War in a generation, historian Lyndal Roper exposes the far-reaching ramifications of this rebellion. Though the war’s victors portrayed the uprising as naive and inchoate, Roper reveals a mass movement that sought to make good on the radical potential of the Protestant Reformation."

    @bookstodon #Books #Reading #History #Politics #PeasantsWar

    hachettebookgroup.com/titles/l