Suffrage stars

Camera Obscura

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1-35

  Shore, Amy ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 65849527909     PISSN: 02705346     EISSN: 15291510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/02705346-2006-010     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. H. F. H., "Anna Shaw and Jane Addams in Pictures," Moving Picture World, 18 May 1912, 617.
2. Moving Picture World, 12 March 1910, 370.
3. H. F. H., "Anna Shaw and Jane Addams," 617.
4. Margaret Finnegan, Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999);
5. and Susan Glenn, Female Spectacle: The Theatrical Roots of Modern, Feminism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000).
6. For more on other films made by suffrage organizations in collaboration with studios, see Amy Shore, "Suffrage and the Silver Screen" (PhD diss., New York University, 2003);
7. Shelley Stamp, Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000);
8. Kay Sloan, The Loud Silents: Origins of the Social Problem Film (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988);
9. and Martin F. Norden, "'A Good Travesty upon the Suffragette Movement': Women's Suffrage Films as Genre," Journal of Popular Film and Television 13 (1986): 171-77.
10. Richard Dyer, Heavenly Bodies: Films Stars and Society (New York: St. Martin's, 1986), 2-3.
11. Eileen Bowser, The Transformation of Cinema: 1907-1915 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), 38.
12. J. A. Lindstrom, "'Almost Worse Than the Restrictive Measures': Chicago Reformers and the Nickelodeons," Cinema Journal 39 (1999): 91.
13. Jane Addams, "The House of Dreams," in The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets (1909; Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972), 78.
14. "Suffrage via Biograph: Moving Picture Romances to Be Produced Here Soon; Miss Jane Addams Poses," New York Tribune, 1 June 1912.
15. Eleanor Flexner, Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1959), 256.
16. Ida Husted Harper, History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 5 (Salem, NH: Ayer, 1985), 335-36.
17. The suffrage plays and songbooks are available on microfilm in the manuscripts division at the Library of Congress. National American Woman Suffrage Association: A Register of Its Records in the Library of Congress, prepared by Grover Batts and Thelma Queen, 1974. Suffrage plays: box 74, reels 53-54; suffrage songs: box 75, reels 54-55.
18. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1991), 35.
19. Richard Dyer, "A Star Is Born and the Construction of Authenticity," in Stardom: Industry of Desire, ed. Christine Gledhill (New York: Routledge, 1991), 133.
20. Tom Gunning, D. W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film: The Early Years at Biograph (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991),41-44.
21. Richard deCordova, Picture Personalities: The Emergence of the Star System in America (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990), 21, 51.
22. "Cecil Spooner in Her Own Color and Costume Confusion, and Suffragettes in Pictures," Montreal Star, 22 June 1912, found in the clippings files of The Jane Addams Papers, 1860-1960. Many of the newspaper articles cited here are drawn from the clippings files of The Jane Addams Papers, ed. Maty Lynn McCree Bryan (Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1984).
23. See "May Show Suffrage Play Here," New York Pioneer Press, 6 July 1912;
24. and "Suffragists in a 'Movie' Drama," New York Morning Telegraph, 16 June 1912;
25. both are found in The Jane Addams Papers.
26. "Suffragists in a 'Movie' Drama."
27. Allen F. Davis, introduction to Addams, The Spirit of Youth, xi.
28. Jane Addams, "The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements," Twenty Years at Hull House (1910; Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990), 75.
29. Elizabeth Gentry, letter to the editor, Kansas City Star, 13 October 1910, found in The Jane Addams Papers.
30. "Miss Addams an Emancipator," Boston American, 15 February 1911, found in The Jane Addams Papers.
31. Marguerite Mooers Marshall, "Give Children a Chance to Play, Jane Addams Says, and They Will Not Fill Reformatories," New York Evening World, 31 January 1911, found in The Jane Addams Papers.
32. "Miss Jane Addams," found in The Jane Addams Papers, 28 December 1910.
33. Ethel Wrenn, "To Free 1,000,000 Child Workers from Living Grave by U.S. Law for Which Women Fight," New York Evening Journal, 23 December 1910, found in The Jane Addams Papers.
34. Will A. Linkugel and Martha Solomon, Anna Howard Shaw: Suffrage Orator and. Social Reformer (New York: Greenwood, 1991), 116.
35. George William Curtis, "Editor's Easy Chair," Harper's 24 (1869): 267,
36. quoted in Peter Cherches, "Star Course Popular Lectures and the Marketing of Celebrity in Nineteenth-Century America" (PhD diss., New York University, 1997), 74.
37. James Redpath, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 November 1879.
38. quoted in Cherches, "Star Course Popular Lectures," 114; emphasis in the original.
39. Untitled article, Florida Metropolis, 29 June 1912, found in The Jane Addams Papers.
40. "Suffrage via Biograph."
41. Ann Page, "Suffrage Cause Aided by Movies," Los Angeles Graphic, 22 June 1912, found in The Jane Addams Papers. This article, like many of the others that covered the pending release of Votes for Women, also covered the upcoming release of Suffrage and the Man (1912), a comedy made under the auspices of the Women's Political Union. Many of the claims of national impact in these articles are also in reference to that film.
42. Jackie Stacey, "Feminine Fascinations: Forms of Identification in Star-Audience Relations," in Gledhill, Stardom, 157.
43. "The Woman Suffrage Play," Chicago Evening Post, 18 June 1912, found in The Jane Addams Papers.
44. "Suffragettes Plan Own Picture Show," Baltimore Evening Sun, 20 June 1912, found in The Jane Addams Papers.
45. Unidentified newspaper article found in 1912 articles in The Jane Addams Papers.
46. Carolyn Gage poetically investigates the complexity of the closet and Addams's persona in her plays. See Gage, The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Other Plays (Saline, MI: McNaughton and Gunn, 1994).