For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago

by Lauren Rabinovitz

Book Overview

"One of the most readable books on early cinema I have ever encountered. . . . Rabinovitz ably brings together a wealth of information about the exciting era of social change that marked the beginning of U.S. cinema."
--Gaylyn Studlar, atuhor of This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age

The period from the 1880s until the 1920s saw the making of a consumer society, the inception of the technological, economic,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813525349
• ISBN13: 9780813525341
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"