Main Street Movies : The History of Local Film in the United States.
Johnson, Martin L.
Main Street Movies : The History of Local Film in the United States. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (316 pages) - Cinema and the American Experience Series . - Cinema and the American Experience Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Accessing Moving Images -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Defining the Local Film -- one: The Silent Pageant: Municipal Booster Films -- two: The Home Talent Film and the Origins of Itinerancy -- three: "How Movies Are Made": Hollywood and the Local Film -- four: Itinerants Adopt a Baby: The Local Hollywood Film and the Operational Aesthetic -- five: Kidnapping the Movie Queen: Amateur Aesthetics as Cultural Critique -- six: The Cameraman Has Visited Your Town: The Local Film and the Politics of Recognition -- seven: Every Town Has Its Main Street: The Banal Localism of the Civic Film -- eight: Reclaiming the Local Film: Artifacts, Archives, and Audiences -- Conclusion: See Your Town Disappear-The Historicity of the Local Film -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
1. The scholarship in this book is a unique and ground-breaking perspective on film culture in small-town America 2. It is a strong project by an up and coming scholar who is very engaged in his field. 3. The book provides rich archival evidence, and multimedia is hosted in enhanced e-book edition as well as online for our print readers via our partnership with the IU Online Media Archives.
9780253032546
Motion pictures-United States-History.
Electronic books.
PN1993.5.U6 .J646 2018
791.43097299999999
Main Street Movies : The History of Local Film in the United States. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (316 pages) - Cinema and the American Experience Series . - Cinema and the American Experience Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Accessing Moving Images -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Defining the Local Film -- one: The Silent Pageant: Municipal Booster Films -- two: The Home Talent Film and the Origins of Itinerancy -- three: "How Movies Are Made": Hollywood and the Local Film -- four: Itinerants Adopt a Baby: The Local Hollywood Film and the Operational Aesthetic -- five: Kidnapping the Movie Queen: Amateur Aesthetics as Cultural Critique -- six: The Cameraman Has Visited Your Town: The Local Film and the Politics of Recognition -- seven: Every Town Has Its Main Street: The Banal Localism of the Civic Film -- eight: Reclaiming the Local Film: Artifacts, Archives, and Audiences -- Conclusion: See Your Town Disappear-The Historicity of the Local Film -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
1. The scholarship in this book is a unique and ground-breaking perspective on film culture in small-town America 2. It is a strong project by an up and coming scholar who is very engaged in his field. 3. The book provides rich archival evidence, and multimedia is hosted in enhanced e-book edition as well as online for our print readers via our partnership with the IU Online Media Archives.
9780253032546
Motion pictures-United States-History.
Electronic books.
PN1993.5.U6 .J646 2018
791.43097299999999