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American Film Cycles: The Silent Era
By Larry Langman
424 pages
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- Greenwood Press
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- Westport, CT
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Synopsis
Examining 40 cycles or themes and more than 1,000 silent films, the author attempts to discern how the screen reflected contemporary social, political, and national trends during the silent years. The period has been divided into the early silent years (1900-1919), with films of one or two reels dominating for the first 15 years, and the later silent period (1920-1929), known as the Golden Age of the Silents, in which feature-length films dominated. One of the author's goals is to establish the ...
Examining 40 cycles or themes and more than 1,000 silent films, the author attempts to discern how the screen reflected contemporary social, political, and national trends during the silent years. The period has been divided into the early silent years (1900-1919), with films of one or two reels dominating for the first 15 years, and the later silent period (1920-1929), known as the Golden Age of the Silents, in which feature-length films dominated. One of the author's goals is to establish the success, and sometimes the failure, of these films to capture the social and political times of their release. Other film books approach the dramas and comedies by genre, not by specific cycles, which makes this work unique.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Preface xi
- Introduction xiii
- Abandoned Spouse 1
- Alcoholism 11
- Amnesia 23
- Avenging Spouse 33
- Backstage 43
- Battered Women 53
- Biographies 63
- Black Hand 73
- Burglary 81
- Capital Punishment 91
- Capital Vs. Labor 101
- Childbirth 113
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Preface xi
- Introduction xiii
- Abandoned Spouse 1
- Alcoholism 11
- Amnesia 23
- Avenging Spouse 33
- Backstage 43
- Battered Women 53
- Biographies 63
- Black Hand 73
- Burglary 81
- Capital Punishment 91
- Capital Vs. Labor 101
- Childbirth 113
- Circumstantial Evidence 121
- Circus 129
- City Vs. Country 139
- Class Distinction 149
- Courtroom 159
- Cross Dressing 169
- Detectives 179
- Divorce 189
- Drugs 199
- Eugenics 211
- Gangs and Gangsters 219
- Greenwich Village 231
- Jungle 241
- Mythical Kingdoms 251
- Patriotism 263
- Political Corruption 275
- Prejudice 285
- Prostitution 297
- Red Scare 307
- Seduction and Abandonment 319
- Slums 333
- Vampires 345
- White Slavery 355
- Women's Rights 363
- Bibliography 371
- Name Index 373
- Title Index 387