American cinema's transitional era: audiences, institutions, practices

Abstract

List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction PART 1. DEFINING TRANSITION: REVISION AND DEBATE 1. Systematizing the Electric Message: Narrative Form, Gender, and Modernity in The Lonedale Operator Tom Gunning 2. To Here from Modernity: Style, Historiography, and Transitional Cinema Charlie Keil 3. Periodization of Early Cinema Ben Brewster 4. Feature Films, Variety Programs, and the Crisis of the Small Exhibitor Ben Singer PART 2. THE TRANSITIONAL SCREEN: NEW GENRES, CULTURAL SHIFTS 5. What Happened in the Transition? Reading Race, Gender, and Labor between the Shots Jacqueline Stewart 6. The Imagined Community of the Western, 1910 1913 Richard Abel 7. The Coney Island Comedies: Bodies and Slapstick at the Amusement Park and the Movies Lauren Rabinovitz 8. Travelogues and Early Nonfiction Film: Education in the School of Dreams Jennifer Lynn Peterson PART 3. THE INDUSTRY IN TRANSITION: CHANGING INSTITUTIONS AND AUDIENCES 9. Where Development Has Just Begun: Nickelodeon Location, Moving Picture Audiences, and Neighborhood Development in Chicago J. A. Lindstrom 10. A House Divided: The MPPC in Transition Scott Curtis 11. Not Harmless Entertainment: State Censorship and Cinema in the Transitional Era Lee Grieveson 12. Cinema under the Sign of Money: Commercialized Leisure, Economies of Abundance, and Pecuniary Madness, 1905 1915 Constance Balides 13. The Menace of the Movies: Cinema's Challenge to the Theater in the Transitional Period Roberta E. Pearson 14. It's a Long Way to Filmland: Starlets, Screen Hopefuls, and Extras in Early Hollywood Shelley Stamp List of Contributors Index