Ryan Jay Friedman

The Movies as a World Force: American Silent Cinema and the Utopian Imagination

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Throughout the silent-feature era, American artists and intellectuals routinely described cinema as a force of global communion, a universal language promoting mutual understanding and harmonious coexistence amongst disparate groups of people. This book examines the body of writing in which this understanding of cinema emerged and explores how it shaped particular silent films.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Altersempfehlung: ab 16 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780813593593
• ISBN-10: 081359359X
• Artikelnr.: 52615294

Autorenporträt

RYAN J. FRIEDMAN is an associate professor of English and the director of film studies at Ohio State University in Columbus. He is the author of Hollywood's African American Films: The Transition to Sound (Rutgers University Press).  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Motion Pictures and Modern Communion  
1 Enlightened Public Opinion: Post-Reform Progressivism, Mental Science,
and Gerald  Stanley Lee's "Moving-Pictures"
2 "The Occult Elements of Motion and Light": Vachel Lindsay's Utopia of the
Mirror Screen
3 "The Motion Picture Is War's Greatest Antidote": Rescue as Release of
Force in D. W. Griffith's Intolerance
4 "Everything Wooed Everything": The Triumph of Morale Over Moralism in
Rupert Hughes's Souls for Sale
5 "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
Notes  
Index