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The movies as a world force : American silent cinema and the utopian imagination
- Title
- The movies as a world force : American silent cinema and the utopian imagination / Ryan Jay Friedman.
- Author
- Friedman, Ryan Jay
- Publication
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- 254 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-248) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: motion pictures and modern communion -- Enlightened public opinion: post-reform progressivism, mental science, and Gerald Stanley Lee's "moving-pictures" -- "The occult elements of motion and light": Vachel Lindsay's utopia of the mirror screen -- "The motion picture is war's greatest antidote": rescue as release of force in D. W. Griffith's Intolerance -- "Everything wooed everything": the triumph of morale over moralism in Rupert Hughes's Souls for sale -- "Little grains of sand": positive thinking and corporate form in Douglas Fairbanks's The thief of Bagdad -- Conclusion: universal history and the historicity of film entertainment.
- Call Number
- MFL 19-2125
- ISBN
- 9780813593609
- 0813593603
- 9780813593593
- 081359359X
- LCCN
- 2018007355
- 40028871970
- OCLC
- 1028598244
- Author
- Friedman, Ryan Jay, author.
- Title
- The movies as a world force : American silent cinema and the utopian imagination / Ryan Jay Friedman.
- Publisher
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-248) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028871970
- Research Call Number
- MFL 19-2125