Cooper, M: Universal Women

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011.

"Meticulously researched and graced with numerous rare stills and frame enlargements, this is a superb, impassioned, detailed examination of how women flourished at Universal during the silent era and how it all came crashing down when the talkies began. Essential."--Choice

"A meticulous and probing institutional history attuned to the hierarchies of gender. Cooper identifies a set of truly significant questions regarding the early access of women to directorial positions in silent cinema and the abrupt curtailment of that access."--Diane Negra, author of Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom

"Deftly illuminates the intended and unintended consequences of institutional formation, change, and decision making at the dawn of the classical Hollywood studio system."--The Journal of American History "With rigorous focus, admirable economy, and wide-ranging research, Cooper outlines a sophisticated strategy for investigating how and why Universal Studios hired women as directors and then stopped doing so. This is the book we have been waiting for."--Kay Armatage, author of The Girl from God's Country: Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema "A stellar analysis of women filmmakers' rise and fall within the context of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company."--Enterprise & Society