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Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry
Michael Glover Smith
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Description for Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 24 b&w. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; APFX; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 242 x 2. Weight in Grams: 514.
Flickering Empire tells the fascinating yet little-known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of American film production in the years before the rise of Hollywood (1907-1913). As entertaining as it is informative, Flickering Empire straddles the worlds of academic and popular nonfiction in its vivid illustration of the rise and fall of the major Chicago movie studios in the mid-silent era (principally Essanay and Selig Polyscope). Colorful, larger-than-life historical figures, including Thomas Edison, Charlie Chaplin, Oscar Micheaux, and Orson Welles, are major players in the narrative-in addition to important though forgotten industry titans, such as "Colonel" William ... Read more
Flickering Empire tells the fascinating yet little-known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of American film production in the years before the rise of Hollywood (1907-1913). As entertaining as it is informative, Flickering Empire straddles the worlds of academic and popular nonfiction in its vivid illustration of the rise and fall of the major Chicago movie studios in the mid-silent era (principally Essanay and Selig Polyscope). Colorful, larger-than-life historical figures, including Thomas Edison, Charlie Chaplin, Oscar Micheaux, and Orson Welles, are major players in the narrative-in addition to important though forgotten industry titans, such as "Colonel" William ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
510g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231174480
SKU
V9780231174480
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About Michael Glover Smith
Michael Glover Smith is an independent filmmaker whose most recent films, At Last, Okemah! (2009) and The Catastrophe (2011), have won multiple awards at film festivals across the United States. He has taught film history and aesthetics at Oakton Community College, Triton College, Harold Washington College, and the College of Lake County, and lectures at Northwestern University and Facets Multimedia. ... Read more
Reviews for Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry
Long overdue... Chicago Tribune An exceptional new book... that immediately joins the ranks of essential film references Chicagoist [Flickering Empire] is a goldmine for popular culture historians and early-film buffs... Recommended. Choice A fascinating read from beginning to end. The Midwest Book Review