American cinema's transitional era : audiences, institutions, practices / edited by Charlie Keil and Shelley Stamp. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keil/Stamp, Author.

Contributor:

Keil, Charlie.

Stamp, Shelley, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--United States.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 371 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.

Summary:

This 'transitional era' covered the years 1908-1917 & witnessed profound changes in the structure of the motion picture industry in the US, involving film genre, film form, filmmaking practices & the emergence of the studio system. The pattern which emerged dominated the industry for decades to come.

Contents:

Pt. I. Sefining transitions: revision and debate ; 1. Systematizing the electric message / Tom Gunning ; 2. "To here from modernity" / Charlie Keil ; 3. The periodization of the early cinema / Ben Brewster ; 4. Feature films, variety programs, and the crisis of the small exhibitor / Ben Singer

pt. II. The transitional screen: new genres, cultural shifts ; 5. What happened in the transition? / Jacqueline Stewart ; 6. The "imagined community" of the western, 1910/1913 / Richard Abel ; 7. The Coney Island comedies / Lauren Rabinovitz ; 8. Travelogues and early nonfiction film / Jennifer Lynn Peterson

pt. III. Industry in transition: changing institutions and audiences ; 9. "Where development has just begun" / J.A. Lindstrom ; 10. A house divided / Scott Curtis ; 11. Not harmless entertainment / Lee Grieveson ; 12. Cinema under the sign of money / Constance Balides ; 13. The menace of the movies / Roberta E. Pearson ; "It's a long way to filmland" / Shelley Stamp.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-520-93754-6

Publisher Number:

2027/heb08010 hdl