Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.

Details

Additional Authors

• Keil, Charlie.
• Stamp, Shelley, 1963-
• American Council of Learned Societies.

Found In

ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org

Description

x, 371 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Uniform Title

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Subject

Motion pictures > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction (note)

• Electronic text and image data.

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.

OCLC

(dli)HEB08010

Title

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

Imprint

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.

Series

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2010. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Added Author

Keil, Charlie.

Stamp, Shelley, 1963-

American Council of Learned Societies.

Found In:

ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/

Other Form:

Original 0520240251 0520240278 (DLC)2003017216