The Progress and Poetry of the Movies: A Second Book of Film Criticism by Vachel Lindsay

by Vachel Lindsay

In 1925, Vachel Lindsay wrote The Progress and Poetry of the Movies as a sequel to his pioneering Art of the Moving Picture (1915) and a reconsideration of a popular entertainment form that dominated the commercialized leisure of his fellow Americans. Seeking to counter his reputation as a much-traveled "jazz poet," Lindsay offered his services as an arbiter of taste to such influential members of the Hollywood movie colony as Douglas Fairbanks and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810829177
• ISBN13: 9780810829176
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 490 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.7"