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American cinema's transitional era: audiences, institutions, practices

Charlie Keil and Shelley Stamp c2004 © University of California Press
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  • 9780520240278 (paper)
  • 9780520240254 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Film & Media Studies
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  • Frontmatter
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES (page vii)
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page ix)
  • INTRODUCTION (page 1)
  • PART 1. DEFINING TRANSITION: REVISION AND DEBATE
    • 1. Systematizing the Electric Message: Narrative Form, Gender, and Modernity in The Lonedale Operator (Tom Gunning, page 15)
    • 2. "To Here from Modernity": Style, Historiography, and Transitional Cinema (Charlie Keil, page 51)
    • 3. Periodization of Early Cinema (Ben Brewster, page 66)
    • 4. Feature Films, Variety Programs, and the Crisis of the Small Exhibitor (Ben Singer, page 76)
  • PART 2. THE TRANSITIONAL SCREEN: NEW GENRES, CULTURAL SHIFTS
    • 5. What Happened in the Transition? Reading Race, Gender, and Labor between the Shots (Jacqueline Stewart, page 103)
    • 6. The "Imagined Community" of the Western, 1910-1913 (Richard Abel, page 131)
    • 7. The Coney Island Comedies: Bodies and Slapstick at the Amusement Park and the Movies (Lauren Rabinovitz, page 171)
    • 8. Travelogues and Early Nonfiction Film: Education in the School of Dreams (Jennifer Lynn Peterson, page 191)
  • PART 3. THE INDUSTRY IN TRANSITION: CHANGING INSTITUTIONS AND AUDIENCES
    • 9. Where Development Has Just Begun: Nickelodeon Location, Moving Picture Audiences, and Neighborhood Development in Chicago (J.A. Lindstrom, page 217)
    • 10. A House Divided: The MPPC in Transition (Scott Curtis, page 239)
    • 11. Not Harmless Entertainment: State Censorship and Cinema in the Transitional Era (Lee Grieveson, page 265)
    • 12. Cinema under the Sign of Money: Commercialized Leisure, Economics of Abundance, and Pecuniary Madness, 1905-1915 (Constance Balides, page 285)
    • 13. The Menace of the Movies: Cinema's Challenge to the Theater in the Transitional Period (Roberta E. Pearson, page 315)
    • 14. "It's a Long Way to Filmland": Starlets, Screen Hopefuls, and Extras in Early Hollywood (Shelley Stamp, page 332)
  • LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS (page 353)
  • INDEX (page 357)
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MI 6.2 (Fall 2006): 145-148 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_moving_image/v006/6.2wagner.html
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