Early American Cinema Paperback / softback
by Anthony Slide
Paperback / softback
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A completely revised and rewritten new edition of the pioneering film book first published in 1970, Early American Cinema, New and Revised Edition provides a concise history of the American motion picture industry before 1920, documenting the work of the early production companies, releasing organizations, filmmakers, and performers, and will serve both as a textbook and a reference source.
Chapters cover pre-cinema, the Motion Picture Patents Company, independent filmmaking, the birth of the feature film, Thomas H.
Ince, D.W. Griffith, sound and music, the star system, the role of women, new technologies, genres, and the languge, business, and art of the film.
The book includes suggestions for further reading, together wiht a general bibliography, and lengthy bibliographies on Ince and Griffith.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:308 pages
- Publisher:Scarecrow Press
- Publication Date:01/08/1994
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- ISBN:9780810827226
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Unavailable
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:308 pages
- Publisher:Scarecrow Press
- Publication Date:01/08/1994
- Category:
- ISBN:9780810827226