LOIS WEBER INTERVIEWS • Compiled by MARTIN F. NORDEN • 1st Trade PB • 2019

Description: LOIS WEBER INTERVIEWSEdited by Martin F. NordemFROM GOODREADS: "Lois Weber (1879–1939) was one of early Hollywood’s most successful screenwriter-directors. A one-time Church Army worker who preached from street corners, Weber began working in the American film industry as an actress around 1908 but quickly ascended to the positions of screenwriter and director. She wrote, directed, starred in, edited, and titled hundreds of movies during her career and is believed to be the first woman to direct a feature film. At the height of her influence, Weber used her medium to address pressing social issues such as birth control, abortion, capital punishment, poverty, and drug abuse. She gained international fame in 1915 with her controversial Hypocrites, a complex film that featured full female nudity as part of its important moral lesson. Her most famous film, Where Are My Children?, was the Universal studio’s biggest box-office hit the following year and played to enthusiastic audiences around the globe. These productions and many others contributed to her standing as a truly world-class filmmaker. Lois Weber: Interviews reprints more than sixty items in which she expressed her views on a range of filmic subjects. The volume includes interviews, articles that Weber wrote, the text of a speech she gave, and reconstructed conversations with her Hollywood coworkers." 2019, Trade Paperback, University Press of Mississippi, 219 pgs, Print-On-DemandFrom the University Press of Mississippi Conversations With Filmmakers Series's CONDITION: As New.We ship in US by USPS Media Mail A trusted Seller on eBay for over Twenty Years!

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