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How the Movies Got a Past: A Historiography of American Cinema, 1894-1930

By Dimitrios Latsis
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By Dimitrios Latsis
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How the Movies Got a Past presents a comprehensive survey of the rise of historiographical discourse on cinema in North America as it is reflected in publications, exhibitions, lectures, and films about the cinema as a technology, form of art, and source of entertainment, from its inception up to 1930. This pioneering historiography of American movies proposes a typology of genres of historical knowledge and examines the role that its articulation played in legitimating the moving image as ...

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