For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago

"One of the most readable books on early cinema I have ever encountered. . . . Rabinovitz ably brings together a wealth of information about the exciting era of social change that marked the beginning of U.S. cinema."
—Gaylyn Studlar, atuhor of This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age

The period from the 1880s until the 1920s saw the making of a consumer society, the inception of the technological, economic, and social landscape in which we currently live. Cinema played...