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1 online resource (x, 371 pages) : illustrations |
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pt. 1 : Defining transition : revision and debate. Systematizing the electric message : narrative form, gender, and modernity in The Lonedale operator / Tom Gunning ; "To here from modernity" : style, historiography, and transitional cinema / Charlie Keil ; Periodization of early cinema / Ben Brewster ; Feature films, variety programs, and the crisis of the small exhibitor / Ben Singer -- pt. 2 : The transitional screen : new genres, cultural shifts. What happened in the transition? : Reading race, gender and labor between the shots / Jacqueline Stewart ; The "imagined community" of the Western, 1910-1913 / Richard Abel ; The Coney Island comedies : bodies and slapstick at the amusement park and the movies / Lauren Rabinovitz ; Travelogues and early nonfiction film : education in the school of dreams / Jennifer Lynn Peterson -- pt. 3 : Industry in transition : changing institutions and audiences. Where development has just begun : nickelodeon location, moving picture audiences, and neighborhood development in Chicago / J.A. Lindstrom ; A house divided : the MPPC in transition / Scott Curtis ; Not harmless entertainment : state censorship and cinema in the transitional era / Lee Grieveson ; Cinema under the sign of money : commercialized leisure, economies of abundance, and pecuniary madness, 1905-1915 / Constance Balides ; The menace of the movies : cinema's challenge to the theater in the transitional period / Roberta E. Pearson ; "It's a long way to Filmland" : starlets, screen hopefuls, and extras in early Hollywood / Shelley Stamp |
| Summary |
This 'transitional era' covered the years 1908-1917 & witnessed profound changes in the structure of the motion picture industry in the US, involving film genre, film form, filmmaking practices & the emergence of the studio system. The pattern which emerged dominated the industry for decades to come |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Bibel Philemonbrief gnd |
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Motion pictures -- United States.
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Motion pictures.
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Kulturwandel
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Filmwirtschaft
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Film.
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United States.
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USA
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USA.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Keil, Charlie, editor.
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Stamp, Shelley, 1963- editor.
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