Abstract

How can archive cinema seem new again? This article discusses film curation strategies for early, silent, and pre-Code cinema, with the aim of foregrounding women’s film history: attracting new audiences to works with unexpected historical contexts. It suggests that early film history can be reconceptualized as “young cinema,” an era of experimentation, innovation, and excitement in the potentiality of the medium, rather than ossified as “old cinema” with the attendant connotations of the canon, overfamiliarity, and perceived irrelevance.

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