American cinema, 1890-1909

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Edited by Andre Gaudreault

Type

Studies

Subject

Silent Cinema

Keywords

early cinema, silent cinema, United States

Publishing date

2009

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Collection

Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 268 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-0-8135-4442-7

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Book Presentation:
At the turn of the twentieth century, cinema was quickly establishing itself as a legitimate form of popular entertainment.

The essays in American Cinema 1890-1909 explore and define how the making of motion pictures flowered into an industry that would finally become the central entertainment institution of the world. Beginning with all the early types of pictures that moved, this volume tells the story of the invention and consolidation of the various processes that gave rise to what we now call "cinema." By examining the battles over patents, production, exhibition, and the reception of film, readers learn how going to the movies became a social tradition in American society.

In the course of these two decades, cinema succeeded both in establishing itself among other entertainment and instructional media and in updating various forms of spectacle.

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