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Lois Weber: More than a Writer-Director She’s the Auteur Activist of Early Cinema – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, April 2025

Film studies courses often still fawn all over Cecil B. DeMille and D.W. Griffith.  Rather than wallowing in the racist messages of Birth of a Nation, professors should focus on the work of Lois Weber, whose use of screenwriting in her activism lends continued relevance to her work. In an era where we bask in the social justice messages of Get Out, by writer-director Jordan Peele, it seems only right to connect the dots from Weber to Peele. So, to celebrate this 50th column, we’re celebrating Weber. 

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Her Career Outlasted the Hays Code: Kathryn Scola – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, March 2025

In a career that first challenged - and then outlasted the Hays Code - Kathryn Scola succeeded in writing the kind of defiant women that major stars like Barbara Stanwyck longed to play – and often did.  Born in New Jersey in 1891 to immigrant parents (her mother from Ireland/ father from Italy) Scola saw women struggle financially in her early life. Perhaps their strength encouraged her to both try her hand at making a living as a writer and use that platform to elevate such female-focused stories.

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