Early American Cinema in Transition
Title | Early American Cinema in Transition PDF eBook |
Author | Charlie Keil |
Publisher | University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | 321 |
Release | 2001-12-10 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0299173631 |
The period 1907–1913 marks a crucial transitional moment in American cinema. As moving picture shows changed from mere novelty to an increasingly popular entertainment, fledgling studios responded with longer running times and more complex storytelling. A growing trade press and changing production procedures also influenced filmmaking. In Early American Cinema in Transition, Charlie Keil looks at a broad cross-section of fiction films to examine the formal changes in cinema of this period and the ways that filmmakers developed narrative techniques to suit the fifteen-minute, one-reel format. Keil outlines the kinds of narratives that proved most suitable for a single reel’s duration, the particular demands that time and space exerted on this early form of film narration, and the ways filmmakers employed the unique features of a primarily visual medium to craft stories that would appeal to an audience numbering in the millions. He underscores his analysis with a detailed look at six films: The Boy Detective; The Forgotten Watch; Rose O’Salem-Town; Cupid’s Monkey Wrench; Belle Boyd, A Confederate Spy; and Suspense.
Early American Cinema
Title | Early American Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Slide |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780810827226 |
Provides a concise history of the American motion picture industry before 1920.
Early American Cinema
Title | Early American Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Slide |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Motion pictures |
ISBN | 9780302020593 |
Provides a concise history of the American motion picture industry before 1920.
American Cinema
Title | American Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Jeanine Basinger |
Publisher | Rizzoli International Publications |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
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This extraordinary book--published to commemorate the centennial celebration of the birth of American film and a 10-part PBS-TV series scheduled for the new year--surveys the phenomenon that is Hollywood, past and present. With more than 200 illustrations, 100 in full color, and including some never before published, this book celebrates the best of American films.
Lovers of Cinema
Title | Lovers of Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Jan-Christopher Horak |
Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | 420 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780299146849 |
Historians and students of American avant-garde cinema often overlook the films of the 1920s through the early 1940s, considering them mere derivatives of their European counterparts. In fact, the American films possess an eclecticism, innovation, and naivete all their own. Marshaling his broad cinematic and cultural knowledge, editor Jan-Christopher Horak has compiled in Lovers of Cinema a ground-breaking group of articles on this neglected film period. With one exception, all are original to this volume, and many are the first to treat comprehensively such early filmmakers as Mary Ellen Bute, Theodore Huff, and Douglass Crockwell.
Bad Women
Title | Bad Women PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Staiger |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | 250 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Cinema |
ISBN | 9781452902678 |
On female sexual morality
American Cinema, 1890-1909
Title | American Cinema, 1890-1909 PDF eBook |
Author | André Gaudreault |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0813544432 |
The essays in American Cinema 1890-1909 explore and define how the making of motion pictures flowered into an industry that would finally become the central entertainment institution of the world. Beginning with all the early types of pictures that moved, this volume tells the story of the invention and consolidation of the various processes that gave rise to what we now call "cinema."