Cinema and Community: Progressivism, Exhibition, and Film Culture in Chicago, 1907-1917

by Moya Luckett

Investigates how progressivism structured many aspects of understudied era of cinema.

Caught between the older model of short film and the emerging classic era, the transitional period of American cinema (1907-1917) has typically posed a problem for studies of early American film. Yet in Cinema and Community: Progressivism, Exhibition, and Film Culture in Chicago, 1907-1917, author Moya Luckett uses the era's dominant political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814337252
• ISBN13: 9780814337257
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"