Episode Details

Laura Horak, Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University, is the author of Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressing Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema. Therefore, most of the conversation addresses the transgression, or lack thereof, of films that depicted such changes in dress, a rich topic represented by four of her five picks.

Laura is also the director of the Transgender Media Lab and Transgender Media Portal. She is co-curator of the 99-film Bluray set Cinema’s First Nasty Women and co-editor of Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space and Unwatchable.

Films and resources mentioned:

• The Red Girl and the Child (1910) - James Young Deer
• The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg (1910) - Sidney Olcott
• The House with Closed Shutters (1910) - D.W. Griffith
• Le Rembrandt de la Rue Lepic (1910) - Jean Durand
• The Abyss (1910) - Urban Gad
• White Fawn’s Devotion (1910) - James Young Deer
• The Fabelmans (2022) - Steven Spielberg
• The General (1926) - Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman
• The Sealed Room (1909) - D.W. Griffith
• Hamlet: The Drama of Vengeance (1921) - Svend Gade and Heinz Schall
• Motion Picture Paradise: A History of Florida’s Film and Television Industry - David Morton
• The American Girl Goes to War: Women and National Identity in U.S. Silent Film - Liz Clarke
• Danish Silent Film