• Source: Women Film Pioneers Project

Women Film Pioneers Project is a freely accessible, collaborative, online-only database resource, produced with support from Columbia University.




Development


Women Film Pioneers Project (OCLC 860910596) was founded in 1993, by Jane Gaines, a film scholar and visiting professor at Vassar College, when Gaines joined the Film & Media Studies Program at Columbia University, officially launching in October 2013 as an online-only resource, produced in partnership with Columbia University Libraries, with support from Columbia University, School of the Arts, Film Program.




Resources


Individual profiles rely on primary documents, digitized resources, film prints, paper collections, government records, other archival materials, and family recollections and memoirs.
Overview essays are longer, peer-reviewed, essays that go beyond a single individual.




Management


By 2016, Kate Saccone had become Project Manager.




Contributors


Contributors, among the more than 200, include:




Critical reception


"It wasn’t until a wave of scholarship arrived in the nineteen-nineties—the meticulous research done by the Women Film Pioneers Project, at Columbia, has been particularly important—that women’s outsized role in the origins of moviemaking came into focus again."—Margaret Talbot
"The Women Film Pioneers Project at Columbia University must be credited with undertaking and compiling much of the research to date."—Melody Bridges and Cheryl Robson
"There is criminally little research and writing on the often astounding careers of female editors. The same might well be said about many of their male counterparts, since most editors do tend to be unseen artists. Yet men came to dominate the field by the late 1920s and continue that hegemony today. Recent historians’ efforts have reclaimed some attention for many female filmmakers, especially in the area of silent film studies. The Women Film Pioneers Project at Columbia University (wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu) is one of the best. Through efforts like this it is now well known that many women played central roles in the founding of the film industry."—Betsy A. McLane




Further reading


Dang, Sarah-Mai (20 December 2020). "Unknowable Facts and Digital Databases: Reflections on the Women Film Pioneers Project and Women in Film History". Digital Humanities Quarterly. 14 (4). ISSN 1938-4122. Retrieved 21 April 2022. In this article, it is made the case that due to their openness and variable use, digital databases, such as the Women Film Pioneers Project, seem to be perfectly suited to respond to this challenge. (Institute of Media Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg)




See also


Center for Digital Research and Scholarship




References






External links


"Welcome". Women Film Pioneers Project. Columbia University Libraries.

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Gale Henry
• Alice Howell
• Caroline van Dommelen
• Luise Fleck
• Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed
• Gene Gauntier
• Louise Lovely
• Eve Unsell
• Helen Holmes (pemeran)
• Marion Leonard
• Women Film Pioneers Project
• Black women in the silent film era
• Strongheart
• Teresita Arce
• B. M. Bower
• Alla Nazimova
• Dorothea Baird
• Fourth wall
• Mary Manning (writer)
• Elvira Notari