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In The Girl from God's Country, Kay Armatage reintroduces film studies scholars to Nell Shipman, a pioneer in both Canadian and American film, and one of proportionately numerous women from Hollywood's silent era who wrote, directed, produced, and acted in motion pictures. Born and raised in British Columbia, Shipman became a contract actress for Vitagraph Studios, starring in God's Country and the Woman (1915) and Back to God's Country (1919), among other films. These action-packed adventure melodramas, in which the heroine is called upon to rescue her husband and defeat the villain, were immensely successful. Later, Shipman started up her own production company to make films centred on her screen persona, 'the girl from God’s country.' By the mid 1920s, however, the formation of the large Hollywood studios and vertical integration closed down the independents, Shipman among them. Nevertheless, she continued writing until her death in 1970.
Through the use of social history, feminist film theory, and biography, Armatage creates a portrait of a woman film pioneer. Using Shipman's working life as a window to the profession, Armatage explores the position of women in modernism, the developing film industry, and cinematic practice of the 1920s. The Girl from God's Country also contextualizes Shipman's work within the development of Hollywood as a locus of artistic production and in relation to women filmmakers from Europe, Australia, Russia and the United States. Armatage brings Shipman back to life in this important book.
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'[Armatage] captures the engaging subject of actor, writer, animal lover, and eternal optimist Nell Shipman, with scholarly excursions that reveal Shipman as a node in a tangle of fascinating theoretical and historiographical issues ... The wealth of original research on Shipman and her context, drawing upon contemporary documents and analyzing rarely seen films, together with the lively presence of Shipman herself through her memoir, makes the book valuable as a resource on women in the silent era, a thoughtful reflection on historiographical method, and an exemplar of feminist scholarship.'
Kay Armatage is Chair, Graduate Programme in Women's Studies, University of Toronto.
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- PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 080204414X
- ISBN 13 9780802044143
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages384
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