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American Cinema of the 1910s: Themes and Variations

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It was during the teens that filmmaking truly came into its own. Notably, the migration of studios to the West Coast established a connection between moviemaking and the exoticism of Hollywood.

The essays in American Cinema of the 1910s explore the rapid developments of the decade that began with D. W. Griffith's unrivaled one-reelers. By mid-decade, multi-reel feature films were profoundly reshaping the industry and deluxe theaters were built to attract the broadest possible audience. Stars like Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks became vitally important and companies began writing high-profile contracts to secure them. With the outbreak of World ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Series
Screen Decades
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813544458
SKU
V9780813544458
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99-1

About Charlie Keil (Ed.)
CHARLIE KEIL is an associate professor in the history department and the director of the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Early American Cinema in Transition: Story, Style, and Filmmaking, 1907-1913. BEN SINGER is an associate professor of film in the department of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin, ... Read more

Reviews for American Cinema of the 1910s: Themes and Variations
“There is nothing like this series. Screen Decades firmly situates American cinema in the realms of material culture, popular culture, cultural narrative, reception analysis, and industrial history.”
American Quarterly

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