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Julie K. Allen, professor of Comparative Arts and Letters at Brigham Young University, is the author of Screening Europe in Australasia. So it makes sense that her selections, each from a different country, would embody the transnational dynamic of silent film just before the outbreak of World War I.

Julie is also the author of Icons of Danish Modernity, Danish but Not Lutheran, and The Silent Muse: The Memoirs of Asta Nielsen. She is currently working on a book about the Danish cinema license system with the tentative title The Cultural Politics of Film Exhibition.

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Films and resources mentioned:

• Quo Vadis (1913) - Enrico Guazzoni
• Atlantis (1913) - August Blom
• Fantômas (1913) - Louis Feuillade
• Traffic in Souls (1913) - George Loane Tucker
• The Suffragette (1913) - Urban Gad
• The Abyss (1910) - Urban Gad
• What 80 Million Women Want (1913) - Will Louis
• Les misérables (1912) - Albert Capellani
• Nick Carter, le roi des détectives (1908) - Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
• Les Vampires (1915) - Louis Feuillade
• Judex (1916) - Louis Feuillade
• Saved from the Titanic (1912) - Étienne Arnaud
• Destiny (1921) - Fritz Lang
• The Phantom Carriage (1921) - Victor Sjöström
• Blind Justice (1916) - Benjamin Christensen
• Sealed Orders (1914) - Benjamin Christensen