Flickering Empire : : How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry / / Adam Selzer, Michael Glover Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Smith, Michael Glover,; Selzer, Adam,
• MitwirkendeR: Doll, Susan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 24 b&w

Flickering Empire tells the fascinating yet little-known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of American film production in the years before the rise of Hollywood (1907-1913). As entertaining as it is informative, Flickering Empire straddles the worlds of academic and popular nonfict...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• FOREWORD
• Persons Discussed in Flickering Empire
• PREFACE: Hollywood Before Hollywood
• Part One: Thomas Edison, Invention and the Dawn of a New Chicago
• 1. Edison's Kinetoscope and Pre-Motion-Picture Entertainment
• 2. The Columbian Exposition
• 3. The Dawn of Exhibition
• Part Two: Chicago Rising
• 4. Colonel William Selig
• 5. George Spoor, George Kleine, and the Rise of the Nickelodeon
• 6. Gilbert "Broncho Billy" Anderson
• 7. The Edison Trust
• Part Three: The Golden Age of Chicago Film Production
• 8. The Golden Age of Essanay
• 9. The Golden Age of Selig Polyscope
• 10. Essanay Signs Charlie Chaplin
• 11. Chaplin in Chicago: His New Job
• Part Four: It All Came Crashing Down
• 12. The Decline Of The Chicago Studios
• 13. Major M.L.C. Funkhouser And The Chicago Censorship Code
• Epilogue
• Post-Script: Oscar and Orson
• Appendix A: Selig Polyscope's Pointers on Picture Acting
• Appendix B: A Complete List of the Extant Chicago-Shot Films Named in this Book and Where to See Them
• Appendix C: Some Censored Scenes of Chicago Films Noted in Local Newspapers
• Endnotes
• Index