Reframing Culture : : The Case of the Vitagraph Quality Films / / Roberta E. Pearson, William Uricchio.
The works of Shakespeare and Dante or the figures of George Washington and Moses do not often enter into popular conceptions of the silent cinema, yet, between 1907 and 1910, the Vitagraph Company frequently used such material in producing "quality" films that promulgated "respectable...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1993 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (268 p.) :; 25 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE. Responses to Cultural Crisis: Political Domination and Hegemony
- CHAPTER TWO. The Film Industry's Drive for Respectability
- CHAPTER THREE. Literary Qualities: Shakespeare and Dante
- CHAPTER FOUR. Historical Qualities: Washington and Napoleon
- CHAPTER FIVE. Biblical Qualities: Moses
- Conclusion
- APPENDIX. Vitagraph's Description of the Washington and Napoleon Films
- Notes
- Index