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Main Street movies : the history of local film in the United States / Martin L. Johnson.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.U6 J57 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Martin L. (Martin Louis), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Production and direction--United States--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion picture industry--United States--History.
- Motion picture industry.
- Motion pictures--Production and direction.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 294 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Bloomington, Indiana] : Indiana University Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Defining the Local Film
- The Silent Pageant: Municipal Booster Films
- The Home Talent Film and the Origins of Itinerancy
- "How Movies Are Made": Hollywood and the Local Film
- Itinerants Adopt a Baby: The Local Hollywood Film and the Operational Aesthetic
- Kidnapping the Movie Queen: Amateur Aesthetics as Cultural Critique
- The Cameraman Has Visited Your Town: The Local Film and the Politics of Recognition
- Every Town has its Main Street: The Banal Localism of the Civic Film
- Reclaiming the Local Film: Artifacts, Archives, and Audiences
- Conclusion: See Your Town Disappear: The Historicity of the Local Film.
- Notes:
- Includes filmography (pages 261-274), bibliographical references (pages 275-287), and index.
- ISBN:
- 0253032539
- 9780253032539
- 9780253032522
- 0253032520
- OCLC:
- 1003305874
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