Flickering Empire – How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry : How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0231174497
ISBN-13
9780231174497
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Imprint
Wallflower Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 20th, 2015
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
378 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.60 x 1.60 cms
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Tells the fascinating but too little known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of film production in America in the years prior to the rise of Hollywood (1907-1913)
Flickering Empire tells the fascinating yet little-known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of American film production in the years before the rise of Hollywood (1907-1913). As entertaining as it is informative, Flickering Empire straddles the worlds of academic and popular nonfiction in its vivid illustration of the rise and fall of the major Chicago movie studios in the mid-silent era (principally Essanay and Selig Polyscope). Colorful, larger-than-life historical figures, including Thomas Edison, Charlie Chaplin, Oscar Micheaux, and Orson Welles, are major players in the narrative-in addition to important though forgotten industry titans, such as "Colonel" William Selig, George Spoor, and Gilbert "Broncho Billy" Anderson.
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