Agata Frymus, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Monash University Malaysia, selects mostly comic films to represent 1907. But by rounding out her selections with an (only maybe regrettably?) lost historical drama and the first Japanese selection of the whole show, she illustrates the multiplicity of film form at the time.
Agata is the author of
Damsels and Divas: European Stardom in Silent Hollywood. She was also a principal investigator on
Black Cinema-Going in New York during the Interwar Period (2018-2020) and serves as a submissions editor for
Early Popular Visual Culture.
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