Circuits of memory and history: The memoirs of Alice Guy-Blaché / Amelie Hastie -- Nazimova's veils: Salome at the intersection of film histories / Patricia White -- Of cabbages and authors / Jane M. Gaines -- Reevaluating footnotes: women directors of the silent era / Radha Vatsal -- The gender of empire: American modernity, masculinity, and Edison's war actualities / Kristen Whissel -- Making ends meet: "welfare films" and the politics of consumption during the progressive era / Constance Balides -- Irma vep, vamp in the city: mapping the criminal feminine in early French serials / Kristine J. Butler -- The flapper film: comedy, dance, and jazz age kinaesthetics / Lori Landay -- The queer career of Jim Crow: racial and sexual transformation in a Florida enchantment / Siobhan B. Somerville -- Taking precautions, or regulating early birth-control films / Shelley Stamp -- The new woman and consumer culture: Cecil B. Demille's sex comedies / Sumiko Higashi -- "So real as to seem like life itself": the photoplay fiction of Adela Rogers St. Johns / Anne Morey -- Oh, "doll divine": Mary Pickford, masquerade, and the pedophilic gaze / Gaylyn Studlar -- Immigrant stardom in imperial America: pola negri and the problem of typology / Diane Negra -- Technologies of early stardom and the extraordinary body / Jennifer M. Bean -- Femininity in flight: androgyny and gynandry in early silent Italian cinema / Angela Dalle Vacche -- Greta Garbo and silent cinema: the actress as art deco icon / Lucy Fischer -- An amorous history of the silver screen: the actress as vernacular embodiment in early Chinese film culture / Zhang Zhen -- Technology's body: cinematic vision in modernity / Mary Ann Doane -- Parallax historiography: the Flâneuse as cyberfeminist / Catherine Russell.