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Love Rules: Silent Hollywood And The Rise Of The Managerial Class
Mark Garrett Cooper
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Description for Love Rules: Silent Hollywood And The Rise Of The Managerial Class
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 395.
Traces the surprising connections between silent films and the rise of bureaucracy
Arguing for a sweeping new consideration of the shift from print to cinema as a governing system for organizing modern American social relations, this book uncovers an intimate connection between Hollywood romances of the silent era and the empowerment of a managerial class.
During the 1910s and 1920s, American movies told love stories through what rapidly became ubiquitous images. Again and again, silent features showed lovers separated by seeming happenstance and reunited as if by magical forces. Mark Garrett Cooper argues that this “magic” implies the expertise of the ... Read moreLove Rules offers a boldly original account of how the Hollywood feature film supplanted the “imagined community” of print culture and, in doing so, played a key role in the transformation of American mass culture. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816637539
SKU
V9780816637539
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About Mark Garrett Cooper
Mark Garrett Cooper is assistant professor of English at Florida State University.
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