- Description
- 1 online resource (v, 254 pages) : illustrations.
- Uniform Title
- Movies as a world force (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Movies as a world force (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-248) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2018007355
- OCLC
- ssj0002191135
- Author
Friedman, Ryan Jay.
- Title
The movies as a world force [electronic resource] : American silent cinema and the utopian imagination / Ryan Jay Friedman.
- Imprint
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-248) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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