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Main Street Movies : The History of Local Film in the United States /
"See yourself in the movies!" Prior to the advent of the home movie camera and the ubiquitousness of the camera phone, there was the local film. This cultural phenomenon, produced across the country from the 1890s to the 1950s, gave ordinary people a chance to be on the silver screen witho...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
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| Colección: | Cinema and the American experience.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : defining the local film
- The silent pageant : municipal booster films
- The home talent film and the origins of itinerancy
- "How movies are made" : Hollywood and the local film
- Itinerants adopt a baby : the local Hollywood film and the operational aesthetic
- Kidnapping the movie queen : amateur aesthetics as cultural critique
- The cameraman has visited your town : the local film and the politics of recognition
- Every town has its Main Street : the banal localism of the civic film
- Reclaiming the local film : artifacts, archives, and audiences
- Conclusion : see your town disappear--the historicity of the local film.