“Business ‘for Individuals (Women Included)’: On Women Film Professionals in Early Russian Cinema”

Abstract

The documents published here shed light on some of the female film profes sionals in prerevolutionary Russia and aspects of their work. These documents are varied in form (a portrait, an article, a photograph, etc.), and each of them represents a certain cinema profession: a distributor and a producer, a screenwriter and a journalist, an assis tant director and an editor. Different case studies presented in this piece fill in some gaps in early cinema history and open a perspective for further research on women film pioneers.