Menus for Movieland : Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture, 1913-1916 /

At the turn of the past century, the main function of a newspaper was to offer "menus" by which readers could make sense of modern life and imagine how to order their daily lives. Among those menus in the mid-1910s were several that mediated the interests of movie manufacturers, distributo...

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Autor principal: Abel, Richard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2015]
Temas:
Motion pictures > History > 20th century > United States > United States.
Motion pictures > Marketing > United States.
Motion pictures > Press coverage > History > 20th century > United States.
Motion pictures > Press coverage > United States > History > 20th century.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
Motion pictures > United States > Marketing.
Newspapers > Social aspects > United States.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • Introduction: The Newspaper, a Cultural Partner of the Movies
  • 1. The Industry Goes to Town (and Country)
  • 2. "Newspapers Make Picture-Goers"
  • 3. "In Movie Land, with the Film Stars"
  • 4. "Film Girls" and Their Fans in Front of the Screen
  • 5. Edna Vercoe's "Romance with the Movies"
  • Afterword
  • Appendix: U. S. Newspapers
  • Newspaper Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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