Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry - Hardcover

Smith, Michael Glover; Selzer, Adam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231174489 ISBN 13: 9780231174480

Verlag: Wallflower Press, 2015

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Long overdue... Chicago Tribune An exceptional new book... that immediately joins the ranks of essential film references Chicagoist [Flickering Empire] is a goldmine for popular culture historians and early-film buffs... Recommended. Choice A fascinating read from beginning to end. The Midwest Book Review

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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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• Verlag: Wallflower Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0231174489
• ISBN 13: 9780231174480
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240