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Cecil B. DeMille And American Culture shows that he director best remembered today for overblown biblical epics was in fact one of the most remarkable pioneers in the film industry during the Progressive Era. In an innovative work that illustrates the intersection of cultural history with cultural studies, Sumiko Higashi describes how DeMille artfully introduced cinema--yet to achieve legitimacy as an art form--into middle-class culture.
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"A very important contribution both to cinema history and to early twentieth-century American history. . . . Higashi rewrites the history of early American cinema as a social history, situating it clearly in the development of American middle-class culture."--Richard Abel, author of The Ciné Goes to Town
"Cecil B. DeMille and the American Culture contributes significantly to scholarly understanding of the construction of the classic Hollywood cinema and, more generally, of consumer culture in the modern West."--Francis G. Couvares, Amherst College
"Cecil B. DeMille and the American Culture contributes significantly to scholarly understanding of the construction of the classic Hollywood cinema and, more generally, of consumer culture in the modern West."--Francis G. Couvares, Amherst College
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When Cecil B. DeMille decided to abandon an unspectacular stage career for filmmaking in 1913, he was undeterred by the low repute of one-reelers associated with workers and immigrants in storefront nickelodeons. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, The Cheat, Lasky Company, Old Wives, The Golden Chance, Famous Players-Lasky, Motion Picture News, Don't Change Your Husband, George Eastman House, Biblical Prologue, Lower East Side, Progressive Era, Geraldine Farrar, What's His Name, Change Your Wife, The Affairs of Anatol, The Squaw Man, Chimmie Fadden, Eric Trent, Los Angeles, World War, Adolph Zukor, David Belasco, Gloria Swanson, Art Deco New!
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When Cecil B. DeMille decided to abandon an unspectacular stage career for filmmaking in 1913, he was undeterred by the low repute of one-reelers associated with workers and immigrants in storefront nickelodeons. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, The Cheat, Lasky Company, Old Wives, The Golden Chance, Famous Players-Lasky, Motion Picture News, Don't Change Your Husband, George Eastman House, Biblical Prologue, Lower East Side, Progressive Era, Geraldine Farrar, What's His Name, Change Your Wife, The Affairs of Anatol, The Squaw Man, Chimmie Fadden, Eric Trent, Los Angeles, World War, Adolph Zukor, David Belasco, Gloria Swanson, Art Deco New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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