Silent cinema is of course a part of the very early periods of cinema. Feminism had taken place back then and was mainly based on the issues of how women produced knowledge about the new medium and its social role, what roles did female writers and celebrities play in molding cultural expectations about women's work, sexuality and marriage, the terms women negotiated on cinema's social space along with its imaginary enculturation, and lastly how could all of these questions affect the ways work is created in film and media studies in a broader sense. The emphasis on women's work and studies were looked upon in order to look at the connection between cinematic discourse and the printed press. Although there was a large deal about the writing the signal role women played as consumers of fan publications and serialized stories in the silent era, there was not enough knowledge about the ways women helped the early motion picture culture grow while taking on the roles of critics and intellectuals. It has been said in the study that we must appreciate the broad range of contributions that women have made to early film-making, traditional conceptions of cinematic labor needs to be reformulated to contain both new categories of workers and new ways of looking at the labour performed by established players. The essays were able to conclude the idea that creating new traditional notions of women and silent cinema and change the working methods and historical assumptions, in which would challenge paradigms that dominated early film scholarship, mainly those in part with women's participation in the early industry. Lastly, their inquiry had extended with the addition of emotional investments in the study. These studies were very vital and had a great deal of roles women have in acting, along with producing and directing.
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