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George Kleine and American cinema : the movie business and film culture in the silent era
- Title
- George Kleine and American cinema : the movie business and film culture in the silent era / Joel Frykholm.
- Author
- Frykholm, Joel, 1977-
- Publication
- London : BFI/Palgrave, 2015.
- ©2015
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- Description
- viii, 248 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- George Kleine was a New York City optician who moved to Chicago in 1893 to set up an optical store. In 1896 he branched out and began selling motion picture equipment and films. Within a few years he became America's largest film distributor and a pivotal figure in the movie business. In chronicling the career of this motion picture pioneer - including his rapid rise to fame and fortune, but also his gradual downfall after 1915 as the era of Hollywood began - Joel Frykholm provides an in-depth account of the emergence of the motion picture business in the United States and its development throughout the silent era. Through the lens of Kleine's fascinating career, this book explores how motion pictures gradually transformed from a novelty into an economic and cultural institution central to both American life and an increasingly globalised culture of mass entertainment.
- Series Statement
- Cultural histories of cinema
- Uniform Title
- Cultural histories of cinema.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-237) and index.
- Call Number
- MVES (Kleine, G.) 16-1479
- ISBN
- 9781844577699
- 1844577694
- OCLC
- 931595578
- Author
- Frykholm, Joel, 1977- author.
- Title
- George Kleine and American cinema : the movie business and film culture in the silent era / Joel Frykholm.
- Publisher
- London : BFI/Palgrave, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cultural histories of cinemaCultural histories of cinema.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-237) and index.
- Local Note
- AUTH: STOCKHOLM U. EXAMINES CAREER OF U.S. MOTION PICTURE PIONEER. CO-PUB. W/ PALGRAVE.
- Chronological Term
- 1900 - 1999
- Research Call Number
- MVES (Kleine, G.) 16-1479