Shelley Stamp

Professor
Film & Digital Media
Univ. of Callifornia
Santa Cruz

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Books

Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture After the Nickelodeon (Princeton University Press, 2000).

• Theater Library Association Book Award Finalist
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

American Cinema's Transitional Era:  Audiences, Institutions, Practices, co-edited with Charlie Keil (University of California Press, 2004).

"Women and the Silent Screen."  A special issue of Film History 18, no. 2 (2006), co-edited with Amelie Hastie.

Articles

“Lois Weber and the Celebrity of Matronly Respectability.”  In Looking Past the Screen: Case Studies in American Film History and Method.  Ed. Jon Lewis and Eric Smoodin.  Raleigh, NC:  Duke University Press, 2007, 89-116.

“Presenting the Smalleys,  ‘Collaborators in Authorship and Direction’.” Film History 18, no. 2 (2006):  119-28.

“Lois Weber, Progressive Cinema and the Fate of ‘Our Work-A-Day Girls’ in Shoes.” Camera Obscura 56 (2004):  140-69.

’It's a Long Way to Filmland’: Starlets, Screen Hopefuls and Extras in Early Hollywood.” In American Cinema’s Transitional Era: Audiences, Institutions, Practices.  Ed. Charlie Keil and Shelley Stamp.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2004, 332-52.

“White Slave Films,” “Lois Weber,” “Phillips Smalley,” “Universal,” “National Board of Censorship,” “Women’s Suffrage Films” and “Women’s Movement:  USA.”  In The Encyclopedia of Early Cinema.  Ed. Richard Abel.  London and New York:  Routledge, 2004.  [Winner of the 2005 Theater Library Association Book Award]