| Description |
1 online resource (v, 254 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: motion pictures and modern communion -- Enlightened public opinion: post-reform progressivism, mental science, and Gerald Stanley Lee's "moving-pictures" -- "The occult elements of motion and light": Vachel Lindsay's utopia of the mirror screen -- "The motion picture is war's greatest antidote": rescue as release of force in D.W. Griffith's Intolerance -- "Everything wooed everything": the triumph of morale over moralism in Rupert Hughes's Souls for sale -- "Little grains of sand": positive thinking and corporate form in Douglas Fairbanks's The thief of Bagdad -- Conclusion: universal history and the historicity of film entertainment. |
| Summary |
The Movies as a World Force is the first analysis of utopian cinema writing; situating it in its proper intellectual contexts, theology, and political philosophy; and illustrating the ways in which its utopian imagination shapes and is shaped by the era's most prestigious film genre, the historical crowd epic. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Utopias in motion pictures.
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Utopias in motion pictures. |
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Silent films -- United States -- History.
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Silent films. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Friedman, Ryan Jay. Movies as a world force. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019] 9780813593609 (DLC) 2018007355 (OCoLC)1028598244 |
| ISBN |
9780813593616 (electronic book) |
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0813593611 (electronic book) |
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9780813593630 |
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0813593638 |
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9780813593609 |
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0813593603 |
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9780813593593 |
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081359359X |
| Standard No. |
40028871970 |
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