Americanizing the movies and "movie-mad" audiences, 1910-1914 /
This engaging, deeply researched study provides the richest and most nuanced picture we have to date of cinema - both movies and movie-going - in the early 1910s. At the same time, it makes clear the profound relationship between early cinema and the construction of a national identity in this impor...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pphvx |
Table of Contents:
- American variety and/or foreign features : the throes of film distribution
- The "usable past" of westerns I
- The "usable past" of westerns II
- The "usable past" of Civil War films, during the "Golden Jubilee"
- The "usable present" of thrillers, from the jungle to the city
- "The power of personality in pictures": movie stars and "matinee girls."