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"So oft to the movies they've been": British fan writing and female audiences in the silent cinema

Lisa Smithstead

Transformative Works and Cultures, Volume: 6

Swansea University Author: Lisa Smithstead

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DOI (Published version): 10.3983/twc.2011.0224

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This article aims to address the ways in which working-class and lower-middle-class British women used silent-era fan magazines as a space for articulating their role within the development of a female film culture. The article focuses on letter pages that formed a key site for female contribution t...

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Published in: Transformative Works and Cultures
ISSN: 1941-2258
Published: Transformative Works and Cultures 2011
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