Flickering Empire

Flickering Empire

Author: Michael Glover Smith

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2015-01-20

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0231850794

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Flickering Empire tells the fascinating yet little-known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of American film production in the years before the rise of Hollywood (1907–1913). As entertaining as it is informative, Flickering Empire straddles the worlds of academic and popular nonfiction in its vivid illustration of the rise and fall of the major Chicago movie studios in the mid-silent era (principally Essanay and Selig Polyscope). Colorful, larger-than-life historical figures, including Thomas Edison, Charlie Chaplin, Oscar Micheaux, and Orson Welles, are major players in the narrative—in addition to important though forgotten industry titans, such as "Colonel" William Selig, George Spoor, and Gilbert "Broncho Billy" Anderson.


Asian Cinema

Asian Cinema

Author: Tom Vick

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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This is the first book to provide a concise, engaging overview of the part, present, and future of the world's most dynamic and influential filmmaking region. Includes historical backgrounds from Iran to Thailand, India and Japan, and a guide for further research.