American cinema's transitional era aud iences, institutions, practices - Keil, Charlie; Stamp, Shelley, 1963-; American Council of Learned Societies (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004)
Pt. I. Sefining transitions: revision and debate ; 1. Systematizing the electric message / Tom Gunning ; 2. "To here from modernity" / Char lie Keil ; 3. The periodization of the early cinema / Ben Brewster ; 4. Feature films, variety programs, and the crisis of the small exhibitor / Ben Singer -- pt. II. The transitional screen: new genres, cultural shifts ; 5. What happened in the transition? / Jacqueline Stewart ; 6. The "imagined community" of the western, 1910/1913 / Richard Abel ; 7. The Coney Island comedies / Lauren Rabinovitz ; 8. Travelogues and earl y nonfiction film / Jennifer Lynn Peterson -- pt. III. Industry in tran sition: changing institutions and audiences ; 9. "Where development has just begun" / J.A. Lindstrom ; 10. A house divided / Scott Curtis ; 11 . Not harmless entertainment / Lee Grieveson ; 12. Cinema under the sig n of money / Constance Balides ; 13. The menace of the movies / Roberta E. Pearson ; "It's a long way to filmland" / Shelley Stamp.
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Keywords: Motion pictures -- United States