# 1910 E4 - Laura Horak

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Podcast: [The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-5-best-films-of-every-year-ever-6929535)
Published: 2026-02-04T07:00:09+00:00
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## Resource

Laura Horak, Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University, is the author of Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressing Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema . Therefore, most of the conversation addresses the transgression, or lack thereof, of films that depicted such changes in dress, a rich topic represented by four of her five picks. Laura is also the director of the Transgender Media Lab and Transgender Media Portal . She is co-curator of the 99-film Bluray set Cinema’s First Nasty Women and co-editor of Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space and Unwatchable . Films and resources mentioned: The Red Girl and the Child (1910) - James Young Deer The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg (1910) - Sidney Olcott The House with Closed Shutters (1910) - D.W. Griffith Le Rembrandt de la Rue Lepic (1910) - Jean Durand The Abyss (1910) - Urban Gad White Fawn’s Devotion (1910) - James Young Deer The Fabelmans (2022) - Steven Spielberg The General (1926) - Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman The Sealed Room (1909) - D.W. Griffith Hamlet: The Drama of Vengeance (1921) - Svend Gade and Heinz Schall Motion Picture Paradise: A History of Florida’s Film and Television Industry - David Morton The American Girl Goes to War: Women and National Identity in U.S. Silent Film - Liz Clarke Danish Silent Film

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