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Title:

American silent film : discovering marginalized voices / edited by Gregg Bachman and Thomas J. Slater.

Publisher:

Southern Illinois University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

viii, 321 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Silent films--United States--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Bachman, Gregg, 1955-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Movies at the margins: the distribution of films to theaters in small-town America, 1895-1919 / George Potamianos -- Charlie Steiner's Houston Hippodrome: moviegoing on New York's lower east side, 1909-1913 / Judith Thissen -- "Have you the power?": the Palmer Photoplay Corporation and the film viewer/author in the 1920s / Anne Morey -- The fiery gaze: a modest proposal for better seeing / Jean Chateauvert -- John Randolph Bray: animation pioneer / Mark Langer -- Sound and the silent film / Maureen Furniss -- Sex and snow: landscape and identity in the God's country films of Nell Shipman / Kay Armatage -- Normalizing stars: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Hollywood consolidation / Sam Stoloff -- The fictionalized ethnic biography: Nita Naldi and the crisis of assimilation / Diane Negra -- June Mathis: a woman who spoke through silents / Thomas J. Slater -- "Abstract and brief chronicles": the early history of MGM revisioned / Joanna E. Rapf.

ISBN:

9780809324026 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
0809324024 (pbk. : alk. paper) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)47705673

LCCN:

2001049352

Locations:

O4AX446 -- Chadwick Library

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)