Mabel's Film Career

A Digital Humanities Project
in Seven Thrilling Acts!

by Russell Zych, MLIS '22

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Prologue: About

Act I: Biography

Act II: Studios

Act III: Directors

Act IV: Performances

Act V: Titles

Act VI: Legacy and Scholarship

Act VII: Missing Data and Other Considerations

☞ Epilogue: Bibliography

Epilogue

The Cast of Secondary Sources Consulted for this Project Include (in alphabetical order):



~ Bilton, Alan. “Dizzy Doras and Big-Eyed Beauties: Mabel Normand and the Notion of the Female Clown.” In Silent Film Comedy and American Culture, edited by Alan Bilton, 137–54. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137020253_6.



~ Cott, Jeremy. "The Limits of Silent Comedy." Literature/Film Quarterly 3, no. 2 (1975): 99-107. Accessed March 14, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43795393.



~ Fussell, Betty. "The Films of Mabel Normand." Film History 2, no. 4 (1988): 373-91. Accessed March 14, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3815153.



~ Joyce, Simon; Jennifer Putzi. "Mabel Normand." In Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal, and Monica Dall’Asta, eds. Women Film Pioneers Project. New York, NY: Columbia University Libraries, 2013. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-e84a-he64



~ KARNICK, KRISTINE BRUNOVSKA. "MABEL NORMAND: NEW WOMAN IN THE FLAPPER AGE." Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy (2017): 35.



~ Sherman, William Thomas. Mabel Normand: A Source Book to Her Life and Films. William Thomas Sherman, 2000.

~ Wagner, Kristen Anderson. Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film. Wayne State University Press, 2018.