The emergence of cinema : the American screen to 1907 / Charles Musser.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York : Toronto : New York :
Scribner ; Collier Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International,
[1990]
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| Series: | History of the American cinema ;
v. 1. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.