Cinema and Community: Progressivism, Exhibition, and Film Culture in Chicago, 1907-1917
By Moya Luckett
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By Moya Luckett
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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. ...


