The movies as a world force : American silent cinema and the utopian imagination /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Friedman, Ryan Jay (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Utopias in motion pictures. Silent films > United States > History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: motion pictures and modern communion
Enlightened public opinion: post-reform progressivism, mental science, and Gerald Stanley Lee's "moving-pictures"
"The occult elements of motion and light": Vachel Lindsay's utopia of the mirror screen
"The motion picture is war's greatest antidote": rescue as release of force in D. W. Griffith's Intolerance
"Everything wooed everything": the triumph of morale over moralism in Rupert Hughes's Souls for sale
"Little grains of sand": positive thinking and corporate form in Douglas Fairbanks's The thief of Bagdad
Conclusion: universal history and the historicity of film entertainment.