The movies as a world force : American silent cinema and the utopian imagination

The movies as a world force : American silent cinema and the utopian imagination /

The Movies as a World Force is the first analysis of utopian cinema writing; situating it in its proper intellectual contexts, theology, and political philosophy; and illustrating the ways in which its utopian imagination shapes and is shaped by the era's most prestigious film genre, the histor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Friedman, Ryan Jay (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Utopias in motion pictures.
Silent films > United States > History.
PERFORMING ARTS > General.
Silent films
Utopias in motion pictures
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: motion pictures and modern communion
  • Enlightened public opinion: post-reform progressivism, mental science, and Gerald Stanley Lee's "moving-pictures"
  • "The occult elements of motion and light": Vachel Lindsay's utopia of the mirror screen
  • "The motion picture is war's greatest antidote": rescue as release of force in D.W. Griffith's Intolerance
  • "Everything wooed everything": the triumph of morale over moralism in Rupert Hughes's Souls for sale
  • "Little grains of sand": positive thinking and corporate form in Douglas Fairbanks's The thief of Bagdad
  • Conclusion: universal history and the historicity of film entertainment.

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