Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers - Something New
Nell Shipman stars as a "writing woman" who travels to Mexico in search of "atmosphere," but is captured by bandits. Rescued by a handsome mining engineer in his Maxwell automobile, the heroine must herself take the wheel after he is injured, driving the car to safety across rough desert terrain. The film conflates "automobility with intellectual creativity," scholar Jennifer Parchesky argues, as the filmmaker herself is aligned with her onscreen performance as writer/adventurer.
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