1914 E3 - Elyse Singer

Elyse Singer, Lecturer in the Department of Theater at Dartmouth College, selects a wide range of forms and genres for her five picks of 1914, from short comedy to serial action to epic tales (one historically dramatic and the other perhaps the first feature comedy). At least two relate to her recent research in female madness in film and the agency of women in serials of the time.

Elyse has also taught at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at CUNY and NYU Tisch. Her work has been published in Cinematic Explorations of the Mind, The Routledge Companion to Performance and Science, Faces on Screen, Feminist Media Histories, and Domitor’s Crafts, Trades, and Techniques of Early Cinema.

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Films and resources mentioned:

Cabiria (1914) - Giovanni PastroneTillie’s Punctured Romance (1914) - Mack SennettFantômas (1914) - Louis FeuilladeThe Perils of Pauline (1914) - Louis J. Gasnier and Donald MacKenzieDaisy Doodad’s Dial (1914) - Florence TurnerTrouble in Paradise (1932) - Ernst LubitschPhotographing a Female Crook (1904) - Wallace McCutcheonLaughing Gas (1907) - Edwin S. PorterBlack Panther (2018) - Ryan CooglerWoman Warrior White Rose (1929) - Zhang HuiminLes Vampires (1915) - Louis FeuilladeThe Violin (1908) - Louis FeuilladeTih Minh (1918) - Louis FeuilladeMetropolis (1927) - Fritz LangLillian Gish: The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me - Lillian GishSpecters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes - Maggie Hennefeld“In Your Face: Physiognomy, Photography, and the Gnostic Mission of Early Film” - Tom Gunning