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Flickering Empire – How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry

Autor Michael Glover Smith, Adam Selzer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 feb 2015
Flickering Empire tells the fascinating yet little-known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of American film production in the years before the rise of Hollywood (1907-1913). As entertaining as it is informative, Flickering Empire straddles the worlds of academic and popular nonfiction in its vivid illustration of the rise and fall of the major Chicago movie studios in the mid-silent era (principally Essanay and Selig Polyscope). Colorful, larger-than-life historical figures, including Thomas Edison, Charlie Chaplin, Oscar Micheaux, and Orson Welles, are major players in the narrative--in addition to important though forgotten industry titans, such as "Colonel" William Selig, George Spoor, and Gilbert "Broncho Billy" Anderson.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780231174497
ISBN-10: 0231174497
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 24
Dimensiuni: 155 x 234 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Wallflower Press

Notă biografică

Michael Glover Smith and Adam Selzer

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Foreword, by Susan Doll
Persons Discussed in Flickering Empire
Preface: Hollywood Before Hollywood
Part 1. Thomas Edison, Invention and the Dawn of a New Chicago
1. Edison's Kinetoscope and Pre-Motion-Picture Entertainment
2. The Columbian Exposition
3. The Dawn of Exhibition
Part 2. Chicago Rising
4. Colonel William Selig
5. George Spoor, George Kleine, and the Rise of the Nickelodeon
6. Gilbert "Broncho Billy" Anderson
7. The Edison Trust
Part 3. The Golden Age of Chicago Film Production
8. The Golden Age of Essanay
9. The Golden Age of Selig Polyscope
10. Essanay Signs Charlie Chaplin
11. Chaplin in Chicago: His New Job
Part 4. It All Came Crashing Down
12. The Decline of the Chicago Studios
13. Major M. L. C. Funkhouser and the Chicago Censorship Code
Epilogue
Post-Script: Oscar and Orson
Appendix A: Selig Polyscope's Pointers on Picture Acting
Appendix B: A Complete List of the Extant Chicago-Shot Films Named in This Book and Where to See Them
Appendix C: Some Censored Scenes of Chicago Films Noted in Local Newspapers
Endnotes
Index

Descriere

Tells the fascinating but too little known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of film production in America in the years prior to the rise of Hollywood (1907-1913)