Episode Details

Most of the picks from Coraline Refort, postdoc fellow at University of Sassari, offer exciting readings through the lens of feminism. But she also examines an animation milestone and a microcosm of film tricks up to 1906.

At University of Sassari, Coraline works on the national project “WOW – Women Writing around the Camera,” which focuses on mapping the autobiographical writings of Italian actresses. She holds a PhD in Film History from the University of Florence, in cotutelle with Sorbonne Nouvelle University, where her dissertation explored the French career of Alice Guy-Blaché.

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Films and resources mentioned:

• Madame’s Cravings (1906) - Alice Guy-Blaché
• The Consequences of Feminism (1906) - Alice Guy-Blaché
• The Maids’ Strike (1906) - Charles-Lucien Lépine
• Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906) - J. Stuart Blackton
• The ? Motorist (1906) - Walter R. Booth
• The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ (1906) - Alice Guy-Blaché
• Esméralda (1905) - Alice Guy-Blaché
• Nurses’ Strike (1907) - André Heuzé
• The Strike (1904) - Ferdinand Zecca
• Pauvre Pierrot (1892) - Émile Reynaud
• Steamboat Willie (1928) - Walt Disney
• The Wizard of Oz (1939) - Victor Fleming
• A Butterfly’s Metamorphosis (1904) - Gaston Velle
• The Boxing Cats (1894) - William K.L. Dickson and William Heise
• Race for the Sausage (1907) - Alice Guy-Blaché
• A Trip to the Moon (1902) - Georges Méliès
• The Impossible Voyage (1904) - Georges Méliès
• How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900) - Cecil Hepworth
• Cinema’s First Nasty Women