Suffrage and the Silver Screen

About this book

"In the 1910s, the American woman suffrage movement became a modern mass movement by using visual culture to transform consciousness and gain adherents. As part of this transformation, suffrage organizations produced several films and related cinematic projects including four full-length, nationally distributed feature productions. This actrivist use was one of the first instances in the United States that a social movement recognized and harnessed the power of cinema to transform consciousness and, in turn, the social order"--Page [4] of cover.