The movies as a world force : American silent cinema and the utopian imagination /
The Movies as a World Force is the first analysis of utopian cinema writing; situating it in its proper intellectual contexts, theology, and political philosophy; and illustrating the ways in which its utopian imagination shapes and is shaped by the era's most prestigious film genre, the histor...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press
[2019]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt22rbjqj |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: motion pictures and modern communion
- Enlightened public opinion: post-reform progressivism, mental science, and Gerald Stanley Lee's "moving-pictures"
- "The occult elements of motion and light": Vachel Lindsay's utopia of the mirror screen
- "The motion picture is war's greatest antidote": rescue as release of force in D.W. Griffith's Intolerance
- "Everything wooed everything": the triumph of morale over moralism in Rupert Hughes's Souls for sale
- "Little grains of sand": positive thinking and corporate form in Douglas Fairbanks's The thief of Bagdad
- Conclusion: universal history and the historicity of film entertainment.