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