The Wonderful World of the Department Store in Historical Perspective
Author: Robert D. Tamilia
Publisher: École des hautes études commerciales, Chaire de commerce Omer DeSerres
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 128
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Author: Robert D. Tamilia
Publisher: École des hautes études commerciales, Chaire de commerce Omer DeSerres
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Denise Jeanne Youngblood
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780299162344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYoungblood provides a cultural perspective of an era traditionally viewed through a revolutionary lens, exploring how films and the film industry illuminate and reflect the popular attitudes of a turbulent time.
Author: Jagdish Saran Sharma
Publisher: Delhi, Chand
Published: 1955
Total Pages: 446
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David S. Shields
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013-06-18
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 022601343X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe success of movies like The Artist and Hugo recreated the wonder and magic of silent film for modern audiences, many of whom might never have experienced a movie without sound. But while the American silent movie was one of the most significant popular art forms of the modern age, it is also one that is largely lost to us, as more than eighty percent of silent films have disappeared, the victims of age, disaster, and neglect. We now know about many of these cinematic masterpieces only from the collections of still portraits and production photographs that were originally created for publicity and reference. Capturing the beauty, horror, and moodiness of silent motion pictures, these images are remarkable pieces of art in their own right. In the first history of still camera work generated by the American silent motion picture industry, David S. Shields chronicles the evolution of silent film aesthetics, glamour, and publicity, and provides unparalleled insight into this influential body of popular imagery. Exploring the work of over sixty camera artists, Still recovers the stories of the photographers who descended on early Hollywood and the stars and starlets who sat for them between 1908 and 1928. Focusing on the most culturally influential types of photographs—the performer portrait and the scene still—Shields follows photographers such as Albert Witzel and W. F. Seely as they devised the poses that newspapers and magazines would bring to Americans, who mimicked the sultry stares and dangerous glances of silent stars. He uncovers scene shots of unprecedented splendor—visions that would ignite the popular imagination. And he details how still photographs changed the film industry, whose growing preoccupation with artistry in imagery caused directors and stars to hire celebrated stage photographers and transformed cameramen into bankable names. Reproducing over one hundred and fifty of these gorgeous black-and-white photographs, Still brings to life an entire long-lost visual culture that a century later still has the power to enchant.
Author: Josephus Daniels
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 470
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Abel
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2008-12-17
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 0861969154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays on “how motion pictures in the first two decades of the 20th century constructed ‘communities of nationality’ . . . recommended.” —Choice While many studies have been written on national cinemas, Early Cinema and the “National” is the first anthology to focus on the concept of national film culture from a wide methodological spectrum of interests, including not only visual and narrative forms, but also international geopolitics, exhibition and marketing practices, and pressing linkages to national imageries. The essays in this richly illustrated landmark anthology are devoted to reconsidering the nation as a framing category for writing cinema history. Many of the 34 contributors show that concepts of a national identity played a role in establishing the parameters of cinema’s early development, from technological change to discourses of stardom, from emerging genres to intertitling practices. Yet, as others attest, national meanings could often become knotty in other contexts, when concepts of nationhood were contested in relation to colonial/imperial histories and regional configurations. Early Cinema and the “National” takes stock of a formative moment in cinema history, tracing the beginnings of the process whereby nations learned to imagine themselves through moving images.
Author: Horace Fletcher
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-06-02
Total Pages: 121
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Author: Justus D. Doenecke
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2011-03-08
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 0813130026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen war broke out in Europe in 1914, political leaders in the United States were swayed by popular opinion to remain neutral; yet less than three years later, the nation declared war on Germany. In Nothing Less Than War: A New History of America's Entry into World War I, Justus D. Doenecke examines the clash of opinions over the war during this transformative period and offers a fresh perspective on America's decision to enter World War I. Doenecke reappraises the public and private diplomacy of President Woodrow Wilson and his closest advisors and explores in great depth the response of Congress to the war. He also investigates the debates that raged in the popular media and among citizen groups that sprang up across the country as the U.S. economy was threatened by European blockades and as Americans died on ships sunk by German U-boats. The decision to engage in battle ultimately belonged to Wilson, but as Doenecke demonstrates, Wilson's choice was not made in isolation. Nothing Less Than War provides a comprehensive examination of America's internal political climate and its changing international role during the seminal period of 1914--1917.
Author: Esther Geva, PhD
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 2014-08-04
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 0826123481
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