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The Movies as a World Force : American Silent Cinema and the Utopian Imagination /
The Movies as a World Force is the first analysis of utopian cinema writing; situating it in its proper intellectual contexts, theology, and political philosophy; and illustrating the ways in which its utopian imagination shapes and is shaped by the era's most prestigious film genre, the histor...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
[2019]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction: motion pictures and modern communion
- Enlightened public opinion: post-reform progressivism, mental science, and Gerald Stanley Lee's "moving-pictures"
- "The occult elements of motion and light": Vachel Lindsay's utopia of the mirror screen
- "The motion picture is war's greatest antidote": rescue as release of force in D.W. Griffith's Intolerance
- "Everything wooed everything": the triumph of morale over moralism in Rupert Hughes's Souls for sale
- "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.