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The Progress and Poetry of the Movies. A Second Book of Film Criticism by Vachel Lindsay.
Lounsbury, Myron; Lindsay, Vachel
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Hardback. In 1925, Vachel Lindsay wrote The Progress and Poetry of the Movies as a sequel to his pioneering Art of the Moving Picture (1915). The present edition of The Progress and Poetry of the Movies, never published in Lindsay's lifetime, contributes to our understanding of the genealogy of contemporary film studies. Num Pages: 490 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 141 x 31. Weight in Grams: 721.
In 1925, Vachel Lindsay wrote The Progress and Poetry of the Movies as a sequel to his pioneering Art of the Moving Picture (1915) and a reconsideration of a popular entertainment form that dominated the commercialized leisure of his fellow Americans. Seeking to counter his reputation as a much-traveled "jazz poet," Lindsay offered his services as an arbiter of taste to such influential members of the Hollywood movie colony as Douglas Fairbanks and invited the ordinary spectator to imagine the 1920s photoplay as intimately linked to an emerging hieroglyphic civilization. The present edition of The Progress and Poetry of ... Read more
In 1925, Vachel Lindsay wrote The Progress and Poetry of the Movies as a sequel to his pioneering Art of the Moving Picture (1915) and a reconsideration of a popular entertainment form that dominated the commercialized leisure of his fellow Americans. Seeking to counter his reputation as a much-traveled "jazz poet," Lindsay offered his services as an arbiter of taste to such influential members of the Hollywood movie colony as Douglas Fairbanks and invited the ordinary spectator to imagine the 1920s photoplay as intimately linked to an emerging hieroglyphic civilization. The present edition of The Progress and Poetry of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
490
Condition
New
Number of Pages
490
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810829176
SKU
V9780810829176
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About Lounsbury, Myron; Lindsay, Vachel
Myron Lounsbury, Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, is the author of The Origins of American Film Criticism, 1909-1939 and has also contributed articles to the Journal of Popular Culture, the Quarterly Review of Film Studies, and Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies.
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