Movie Struck Girls - Women & Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 3(7) Spare Us One Evening: Cultivating Cinema's Female Audience 10(31) Playing to the Ladies 11(13) Added Attractions: Women in the Audience 24(17) Is Any Girl Safe? Motion Pictures, Women's Leisure, and the White Slavery Scare 41(61) The White Slavery Scare 42(9) White Slavery and Motion Picture Audiences 51(19) White Slavery on the Screen 70(24) Female Spectators at the White Slave Films 94(8) Ready-Made Customers: Female Movie Fans and the Serial Craze 102(52) Promoting Pauline 103(7) The Biggest Thrills Are Yet to Come: Serial Desire and the Heterogeneous Text 110(15) An Awful Struggle between Love and Ambition: Serial Heroines and Modern Femininity 125(16) What Sort of Fellow Is Pearl White? Serial Queens and Their Female Fans 141(13) Civic Housekeeping: Women's Suffrage, Female Viewers, and the Body Politic 154(41) Defining Female Citizenship in Suffrage Comedies 156(12) Recruiting Female Viewers 168(9) Civic Housekeeping and the Conservative Appeal 177(18) Conclusion 195(6) Notes 201(40) Selected Bibliography 241(26) Index 267