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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| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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