The emergence of cinema : the American screen to 1907 / Charles Musser.

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Main Author: Musser, Charles
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Toronto : New York : Scribner ; Collier Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, [1990]
Series:History of the American cinema ; v. 1.
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490 1 |a History of the American cinema ;  |v v. 1 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-544) and indexes. 
505 0 |a Pt. 1. Before cinema -- Toward a history of screen practice -- Thmas Edison and the amusement world -- Projecting motion pictures : invention and innovation -- Pt. 2. The novelty of cinema : 1896-1897 -- The vitascope -- Early motion-picture companies -- The proliferation of motion-picture companies and an assessment of the novelty year -- Pt. 3. The exhibitor plays a creative role : 1897-1900 -- Full-length programs : fights, passion plays, and travel -- Commercial warfare and the Spanish American War : 1897-1898 -- THe film industry achieves modest stability : 1898-1901 -- Pt. 4. The production company assumes creative dominance : 1900-1905 -- A period of commercial crisis : 1900-1903 -- The transition to story films : 1903-1904 -- Cinema flourishes within its existing commercial framework : 1904-1905 -- Pt. 5. The beginnings of the Nickelodeon Era : 1905-1907 -- Nickels count: storefront theaters : 1905-1907 -- Production as the Nickelodeon Era begins : 1905-1907. 
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