Menus for movieland : newspapers and the emergence of American film culture /

"At the turn of the last century, the main function of a newspaper was to offer 'menus' by which readers could make sense of modern life and imagine how to order their own daily lives. Among those menus in the mid-1910s were several that mediated the interests of movie manufacturers,...

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Main Author: Abel, Richard, 1941- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • The industry goes to town (and country)
  • "Newspapers make picture-goers"
  • "In movie land, with the film stars"
  • "Film girls" and their fans in front of the screen
  • Edna Vercoe's "romance with the movies."