American cinema's transitional era : audiences, institutions, practices
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American cinema's transitional era : audiences, institutions, practices
University of California Press, c2004
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[: hbk] ISBN 9780520240254
Description
The years between 1908 and 1917 witnessed what may have been the most significant transformation in American film history. During this "transitional era," widespread changes affected film form and film genres, filmmaking practices and industry structure, exhibition sites, and audience demographics. By the end of the period, cinema had moved toward the shape it would assume for decades under the studio system. This collection of new essays by prominent film scholars traces these myriad changes, presenting the most detailed and comprehensive portrait yet of this pivotal stage in cinema's development.
Topics under discussion include debates about cinema's place in American culture; the influence of an evolving feature format; the role of state censorship; emerging genres and audiences; onscreen depictions of gender, race, and nationality; changing exhibition practices and theater locales; and the emergence of Hollywood as the nation's film capital.
Contributors: Richard Abel, Constance Balides, Ben Brewster, Scott Curtis, Lee Grieveson, Tom Gunning, Charlie Keil, J. A. Lindstrom, Roberta E. Pearson, Jennifer Lynn Peterson, Lauren Rabinovitz, Ben Singer, Shelley Stamp, Jacqueline Stewart
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction PART 1. DEFINING TRANSITION: REVISION AND DEBATE 1. Systematizing the Electric Message: Narrative Form, Gender, and Modernity in The Lonedale Operator Tom Gunning 2. "To Here from Modernity": Style, Historiography, and Transitional Cinema Charlie Keil 3. Periodization of Early Cinema Ben Brewster 4. Feature Films, Variety Programs, and the Crisis of the Small Exhibitor Ben Singer PART 2. THE TRANSITIONAL SCREEN: NEW GENRES, CULTURAL SHIFTS 5. What Happened in the Transition? Reading Race, Gender, and Labor between the Shots Jacqueline Stewart 6. The "Imagined Community" of the Western, 1910-1913 Richard Abel 7. The Coney Island Comedies: Bodies and Slapstick at the Amusement Park and the Movies Lauren Rabinovitz 8. Travelogues and Early Nonfiction Film: Education in the School of Dreams Jennifer Lynn Peterson PART 3. THE INDUSTRY IN TRANSITION: CHANGING INSTITUTIONS AND AUDIENCES 9. Where Development Has Just Begun: Nickelodeon Location, Moving Picture Audiences, and Neighborhood Development in Chicago J. A. Lindstrom 10. A House Divided: The MPPC in Transition Scott Curtis 11. Not Harmless Entertainment: State Censorship and Cinema in the Transitional Era Lee Grieveson 12. Cinema under the Sign of Money: Commercialized Leisure, Economies of Abundance, and Pecuniary Madness, 1905-1915 Constance Balides 13. The Menace of the Movies: Cinema's Challenge to the Theater in the Transitional Period Roberta E. Pearson 14. "It's a Long Way to Filmland": Starlets, Screen Hopefuls, and Extras in Early Hollywood Shelley Stamp List of Contributors Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780520240278
Description
The years between 1908 and 1917 witnessed what may have been the most significant transformation in American film history. During this 'transitional era', widespread changes affected film form and film genres, film-making practices and industry structure, exhibition sites, and audience demographics. By the end of the period, cinema had moved toward the shape it would assume for decades under the studio system. This collection of new essays by prominent film scholars traces these myriad changes, presenting the most detailed and comprehensive portrait yet of this pivotal stage in cinema's development. The topics under discussion include: debates about cinema's place in American culture; the influence of an evolving feature format; the role of state censorship; emerging genres and audiences; onscreen depictions of gender, race and nationality; changing exhibition practices and theater locales; and, the emergence of Hollywood as the nation's film capital. The contributors include Richard Abel, Constance Balides, Ben Brewster, Scott Curtis, Lee Grieveson, Tom Gunning, Charlie Keil, J.A.Lindstrom, Roberta E.
Pearson, Jennifer Lynn Peterson, Lauren Rabinovitz, Ben Singer, Shelley Stamp, and Jacqueline Stewart.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction PART 1. DEFINING TRANSITION: REVISION AND DEBATE 1. Systematizing the Electric Message: Narrative Form, Gender, and Modernity in The Lonedale Operator Tom Gunning 2. "To Here from Modernity": Style, Historiography, and Transitional Cinema Charlie Keil 3. Periodization of Early Cinema Ben Brewster 4. Feature Films, Variety Programs, and the Crisis of the Small Exhibitor Ben Singer PART 2. THE TRANSITIONAL SCREEN: NEW GENRES, CULTURAL SHIFTS 5. What Happened in the Transition? Reading Race, Gender, and Labor between the Shots Jacqueline Stewart 6. The "Imagined Community" of the Western, 1910 1913 Richard Abel 7. The Coney Island Comedies: Bodies and Slapstick at the Amusement Park and the Movies Lauren Rabinovitz 8. Travelogues and Early Nonfiction Film: Education in the School of Dreams Jennifer Lynn Peterson PART 3. THE INDUSTRY IN TRANSITION: CHANGING INSTITUTIONS AND AUDIENCES 9. Where Development Has Just Begun: Nickelodeon Location, Moving Picture Audiences, and Neighborhood Development in Chicago J. A. Lindstrom 10. A House Divided: The MPPC in Transition Scott Curtis 11. Not Harmless Entertainment: State Censorship and Cinema in the Transitional Era Lee Grieveson 12. Cinema under the Sign of Money: Commercialized Leisure, Economies of Abundance, and Pecuniary Madness, 1905 1915 Constance Balides 13. The Menace of the Movies: Cinema's Challenge to the Theater in the Transitional Period Roberta E. Pearson 14. "It's a Long Way to Filmland": Starlets, Screen Hopefuls, and Extras in Early Hollywood Shelley Stamp List of Contributors Index
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