Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio

by Andrew a Erish and Andrew A. Erish

Book Overview

In Vitagraph, Andrew A. Erish provides the first comprehensive examination and reassessment of the company most responsible for defining and popularizing the American movie. This history challenges long-accepted Hollywood mythology that simply isn't true: that Paramount and Fox invented the feature film, that Universal created the star system, and that these companies, along with MGM and Warner Bros., developed motion pictures into a multi-million-dollar...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813181194
• ISBN13: 9780813181196
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"