Hollywood outsiders : the adaptation of the film industry, 1913-1934 / Anne Morey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morey, Anne.

Series:

Commerce and mass culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--United States--History.

Motion pictures.

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 242 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2003]

Summary:

The 1910s and 1920s witnessed the inception of a particular brand of negotiation between filmdom and its public in the United States. Hollywood, its proponents, and its critics sought to establish new connections between audience and industry, suggesting means by which Hollywood outsiders could become insiders. Hollywood Outsiders looks at how four disparate entities -- the Palmer Photoplay correspondence school of screenwriting, juvenile series fiction about youngsters involved in the film industry, film appreciation and character education programs for high school students, and Catholic and Protestant efforts to use and influence filmmaking -- conceived of these connections and thus of the relationship of Hollywood to the individual and society. Hollywood Outsiders combines concrete discussions of cultural politics with a broader argument about how outsiders viewed the film industry as a vehicle of self-validation and of democratic ideals.

Contents:

The rhetorics of democracy

Acting naturally: juvenile series fiction about moviemaking

Fashioning the self to fashion the film: the case of the Palmer Photoplay Corporation

"Sermons in screens": denominational incursions into Hollywood

Learning to understand the foe: character education and film appreciation.

Notes:

Partially based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Univ. of Texas at Austin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0816637326

0816637334

OCLC:

51905750