Flickering empire: how Chicago invented the U.S. film industry
2015; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 52; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5860/choice.190715
ISSN1943-5975
Tópico(s)Art History and Market Analysis
ResumoAcknowledgementsForeword, by Susan Doll Persons Discussed in Flickering Empire Preface: Hollywood Before HollywoodPart 1. Thomas Edison, Invention and the Dawn of a New Chicago1. Edison's Kinetoscope and Pre-Motion-Picture Entertainment2. The Columbian Exposition3. The Dawn of Exhibition Part 2. Chicago Rising4. Colonel William Selig 5. George Spoor, George Kleine, and the Rise of the Nickelodeon 6. Gilbert Broncho Billy Anderson7. The Edison TrustPart 3. The Golden Age of Chicago Film Production8. The Golden Age of Essanay9. The Golden Age of Selig Polyscope 10. Essanay Signs Charlie Chaplin11. Chaplin in Chicago: His New JobPart 4. It All Came Crashing Down12. The Decline of the Chicago Studios 13. Major M. L. C. Funkhouser and the Chicago Censorship CodeEpilogue Post-Script: Oscar and Orson Appendix A: Selig Polyscope's Pointers on Picture ActingAppendix 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 NewspapersEndnotes Index
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