To the rescue
how immigrants saved the American film industry 1896-1912
by Ken Weiss
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A groundbreaking monograph of the brief period during the first fifteen years of the film's inception in which large numbers of recent South and East European immigrants discovered (and fell in love with) the movies. This generally understudied period gave rise to extreme middle class reaction against films as well as the first efforts by immigrants themselves to become theatre owners/operators, distributors and finally film-makers.
Dr. Weiss offers important new research on the technical and scientific origins of popular cinema, the financial networks (formal and informal) that allowed for its explosive growth and the growth of small time operators and distributors into major film makers of the future. Richly detailed research on who went to the movies and why.
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Economic aspects, Economic aspects of Motion picture industry, Economic aspects of Motion pictures, History, Immigrants, Motion picture industry, Motion pictures, Social aspects, Social aspects of Motion pictures, United States, Motion pictures, united states, Motion pictures, social aspects, Immigrants, united states, Motion pictures, historyPlaces
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To the rescue: how immigrants saved the American film industry 1896-1912
1997, Austin & Winfield
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To the rescue: how immigrants saved the American film industry 1896-1912
1996, Austin & Winfield
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