Before the nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company
Charles Musser
Musser takes us into the long-forgotten world of early cinema--unexpectedly sophisticated and yet radically different from current movie-making. Focusing on Edwin S. Porter, most often remembered as the producer of The Great Train Robbery, Musser situates Porter's achievements within the vibrant context of turn-of-the-century popular culture and the commercial pragmatics of the Edison Manufacturing Company--the leading American film-producing entity from 1894 to 1908.
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Year:
1991
Publisher:
University of California Press
Language:
english
ISBN 10:
0520069862
ISBN 13:
9780520069862
File:
EPUB, 6.07 MB
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english, 1991