| Description |
xv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
The backdrop : Victorian American and amusements -- Through a lens darkly : the decline of progress -- Rescuing the family : urban progressivism and modern leisure -- Apocalyptic cinema : D.W. Griffith and the aesthetics of reform -- Revitalization : Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and the new personality, 1914-1918 -- You are the star : the evolution of the theater palace, 1908-1929 -- The new frontier : "Hollywood," 1914-1920 -- Politics dissolved : Cecil B. DeMille and the consumer ideal, 1918-1929 -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1 : Historiography and new sources -- Appendix 2 : Tables |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Culture in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Popular culture -- United States.
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| LC no. |
80011889 |
| ISBN |
0195027620 |
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