Accessibility
Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Finalists Shop NowBarnes & Noble Book of the Year Finalists Shop Now

Cinema and Community: Progressivism, Exhibition, and Film Culture in Chicago, 1907-1917

Paperback
$42.38
Promotion message icon

Premium Members save an extra 10% and all Members collect stamps to save with Rewards. 10 stamps = $5.

In stock
This item is currently out of stock online.
Free standard shipping on orders over $60
Select a store to view item availability.
Investigates how progressivism structured many aspects of understudied era of cinema.

Caught between the older model of short film and the emerging classic era, the transitional period of American cinema (1907-1917) has typically posed a problem for studies of early American film. Yet in Cinema and Community: Progressivism, Exhibition, and Film Culture in Chicago, 1907-1917, author Moya Luckett uses the era's dominant political ideology as a lens to better understand its cinematic practice. ...