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Flickering empire : how Chicago invented the U.S. film industry /
This is 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). It illustrates the rise and fall of the major Chicago movie studios in the mid-silent era (focusing principally on the Essan...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Wallflower Press Book published by Columbia University Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.