{"id":114560,"date":"2020-11-18T15:16:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T12:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-history-of-hollywoods-first-female-director\/"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:16:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T12:16:30","slug":"the-history-of-hollywoods-first-female-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-history-of-hollywoods-first-female-director\/","title":{"rendered":"#The History of Hollywood&#8217;s First Female Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4217d0dff41\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4217d0dff41\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-history-of-hollywoods-first-female-director\/#Who_made_this\" >Who made this?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-history-of-hollywoods-first-female-director\/#More_Videos_Like_This\" >More Videos Like This<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#The History of Hollywood&#8217;s First Female Director<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.8--><\/p>\n<p id=\"block-6f00726e-27c0-4c3f-977d-0d878230e87b\"><em>Welcome to <strong>The Queue<\/strong> \u2014 your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we\u2019re watching a video about the under-discussed impact of actress, director, producer, and screenwriter Lois Weber.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>I once heard someone say that if you watched films from before the 1960s, you weren\u2019t just a film fan, you were a historian. The sentiment behind the statement is <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ealing enough. And it is a good reminder that this pastime, while often passive, isn\u2019t frivolous.<\/p>\n<p>And yet I do find that there is a drop-off point. I\u2019d say <em>most <\/em>folks are familiar with films from the studio system onwards. But when it comes to pre-code fare, it starts to get a bit more obscure. This is, I suspect, in part because so much of early cinema is quite literally missing, lost, or irrevocably damaged. If people who watch films before the 1960s are historians, people who watch early 20th-century cinema are basically archeologists. And there are decidedly fewer of them. <\/p>\n<p>I myself am not especially knowledgeable about this era and am always grateful to find resources that try to bring me up to speed. Like today\u2019s video essay, which profiles, succinctly, one of the most remarkable and unsung women filmmakers in early Hollywood history: <strong>Lois Weber<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Weber was the first woman to direct her own feature film and to own her own studio. She made over one hundred and thirty-five films, many of which were ahead of their time both in their innovative formal construction and their moral nuance, the latter of which courted considerable controversy. <\/p>\n<p>Her name ought to be uttered in the same breath as D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille. So, why did we largely forget about one of the great pioneering voices in early filmmaking? What did \u201cthe cinema of Lois Weber\u201d look like? <\/p>\n<p id=\"block-e541a95a-199d-4122-b78b-2c914720e5df\">Watch \u201c<strong>A History of Silence: The Cinema of Lois Weber\u201d<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A History of Silence: The Cinema of Lois Weber\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-dM3_O4FEZA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"block-2db4b785-6b87-4022-8b34-6427a91b3c9c\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_made_this\"><\/span>Who made this?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p id=\"block-179f886d-6774-4450-838c-e8ce21d0a808\">This video essay is by <strong>Lux<\/strong>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> that explores film form, history, and culture. Texas-based <strong>Travis Lee Ratcliff<\/strong> runs the channel and is a working editor and filmmaker. You can subscribe to Lux on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/LuxVeritas\/videos\">here<\/a>. And you can follow them on Twitter <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/travratc\">here<\/a>. They are also on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/travisleeratcliff\">Vimeo<\/a>!<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"block-fb48aa76-d6f3-4b98-84ac-4c8f6a6f4b25\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"More_Videos_Like_This\"><\/span>More Videos Like This<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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