It was during the teens that filmmaking truly came into its own. Notably, the migration of studios to the West Coast established a connection between moviemakin

Today, we are so accustomed to consuming the amplified lives of film stars that the origins of the phenomenon may seem inevitable in retrospect. But the conjunc

It was during the teens that filmmaking truly came into its own. Notably, the migration of studios to the West Coast established a connection between moviemakin

Before the advent of television, cinema offered serialised films as a source of weekly entertainment. This book traces the history from the days of silent scree

The essays in American Cinema 1890-1909 explore and define how the making of motion pictures flowered into an industry that would finally become the central ent