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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2015]
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Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
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."