The Movies as a World Force : : American Silent Cinema and the Utopian Imagination / / Ryan Jay Friedman.
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. In the early 1920s, film-industry leaders began to espou...
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Friedman, Ryan Jay, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Movies as a World Force : American Silent Cinema and the Utopian Imagination / Ryan Jay Friedman. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019] ©2019 1 online resource (232 p.) : 20 B&W text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Motion Pictures and Modern Communion -- 1. Enlightened Public Opinion: Postreform 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. In the early 1920s, film-industry leaders began to espouse this utopian view, in order to claim for motion pictures an essentially uplifting social function. The Movies as a World Force examines the body of writing in which this understanding of cinema emerged and explores how it shaped particular silent films and their marketing campaigns. The utopian and universalist view of cinema, the book shows, represents a synthesis of New Age spirituality and the new liberalism. It provided a framework for the first official, written histories of American cinema and persisted as an advertising trope, even after the transition to sound made movies reliant on specific national languages. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021) Silent films United States History. Utopias in motion pictures. PERFORMING ARTS / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2019 9783110605785 ZDB-23-DPK Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts, Architecture and Design 2019 English 9783110610017 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English 9783110610765 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 9783110664232 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 9783110653526 print 9780813593593 https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813593630?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813593630 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780813593630.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Motion Pictures and Modern Communion -- 1. Enlightened Public Opinion: Postreform 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Motion Pictures and Modern Communion -- 1. Enlightened Public Opinion: Postreform 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
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