Add to ORKGScholars have argued that silent films were a political tool during Progressive American history. Films are argued to be political based on their narrative and how they were used to support certain agendas of various groups. This paper seeks to understand how these films could be made to be such malleable political tools. The same scholars who argue for a films’ political element goes further by developing their own lenses as to how to categorise a film as progressive. Using such lenses, the scholars agree that films of the Progressive Era, strove to push out beliefs belonging to the Victorian era. However, through the same lenses, films and their messages themselves are not analysed deeply to understand the nature of such films before argu...
This thesis traces the emergence of film criticism discourse in American film trade publications bet...
Silent movies did not have any talking or music in them but they left indelible traces to this day, ...
This paper examines the formal qualities and historic context of three early films produced for the ...
The most basic idea of American identity is essentially--and paradoxically--universal. Silent film, ...
After decades of oblivion the status of Lois Weber’s production has emerged as one of the most impor...
At the beginning of the twentieth century, reformers struggled to define women's sexuality. Progress...
With the rise of narrative cinema, the social problem film became an important genre in pre-World Wa...
This absorbing study of early 20th Century American Culture interprets the anarchic absurdity of sla...
Early American film scholars often critique the relative ineffectiveness of a single literary work, ...
In this cross-cultural history of narrative cinema and media from the 1910s to the 1930s, leading an...
When the Supreme Court was first confronted with a First Amendment case involving film, it was confr...
The American movie industry did not have to develop into the Hollywood dream factory. There were edu...
This anthology exposes the richness and variety of interests that motivate feminist film research to...
While the earliest films were made and distributed in the 1890s, Film Studies did not emerge as a pr...
During the late 19th century longer rolls of celluloid photographic film, and motion picture cameras...
This thesis traces the emergence of film criticism discourse in American film trade publications bet...
Silent movies did not have any talking or music in them but they left indelible traces to this day, ...
This paper examines the formal qualities and historic context of three early films produced for the ...
The most basic idea of American identity is essentially--and paradoxically--universal. Silent film, ...
After decades of oblivion the status of Lois Weber’s production has emerged as one of the most impor...
At the beginning of the twentieth century, reformers struggled to define women's sexuality. Progress...
With the rise of narrative cinema, the social problem film became an important genre in pre-World Wa...
This absorbing study of early 20th Century American Culture interprets the anarchic absurdity of sla...
Early American film scholars often critique the relative ineffectiveness of a single literary work, ...
In this cross-cultural history of narrative cinema and media from the 1910s to the 1930s, leading an...
When the Supreme Court was first confronted with a First Amendment case involving film, it was confr...
The American movie industry did not have to develop into the Hollywood dream factory. There were edu...
This anthology exposes the richness and variety of interests that motivate feminist film research to...
While the earliest films were made and distributed in the 1890s, Film Studies did not emerge as a pr...
During the late 19th century longer rolls of celluloid photographic film, and motion picture cameras...
This thesis traces the emergence of film criticism discourse in American film trade publications bet...
Silent movies did not have any talking or music in them but they left indelible traces to this day, ...
This paper examines the formal qualities and historic context of three early films produced for the ...