Reframing Culture (eBook)

The Case of the Vitagraph Quality Films

William Uricchio, Roberta E. Pearson (Autoren)

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2014
268 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6363-1 (ISBN)

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The works of Shakespeare and Dante or the figures of George Washington and Moses do not often enter into popular conceptions of the silent cinema, yet, between 1907 and 1910, the Vitagraph Company frequently used such material in producing "quality" films that promulgated "respectable" culture. William Uricchio and Roberta Pearson situate these films in an era of immigration, labor unrest, and mainstream American xenophobia, in order to explore the cultural views promoted by the films and the ways the audiences--the middle classes as well as workers and immigrants--related to what they saw. The authors associate the production of quality films with a top-down forging of cultural consensus on issues such as patriotism and morality, and reveal the surprising bottom-up negotiations of these films' "meanings.".Devoting chapters to the literary, historical, and biblical subjects used by Vitagraph, this book draws upon plays, pageants, school textbooks, and even product advertisements to illuminate the conditions of cinematic production and reception. It provides a detailed look at one aspect of the film industry's transformation from "despised cheap amusement" to the nation's dominant mass medium, while showing how cultural elites engaged in a struggle similar to that of today's American academy over the literary canon and national value systems.Originally published in 1993.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Zusatzinfo: 25 halftones
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Schlagworte: Acting • Actor-manager • Advertising • Alan Sinfield • Antony and Cleopatra • art film • Arthur Symons • assassination • Banquo • biblical inerrancy • Blue law • Censorship • Classical Hollywood Cinema • Cultural Hegemony • cultural reproduction • culture and anarchy • culture and society • Deathtrap (plot device) • Dime museum • D. W. Griffith • East Lynne • Education • Edward Said • Elbert Hubbard • Entertainment • Essay • Film • film industry • Forty-Eighters • Grand Army of the Republic • Guinevere • hegemony • Horace Vernet • Ida Tarbell • Illustration • Institution • Jack Zipes • Jonathan Dollimore • J. Stuart Blackton • Judgment of Solomon • King Lear • labor unrest • Lawrence Barrett • Lecture • Literature • Martin Chuzzlewit • McClure's • Melodrama • Melting Pot • Motion Picture Patents Company • Mr. • Muckraker • Napoleon • narrative • nepotism • newspaper • New York World • Oliver Cromwell • Orientalism • Orthodox Judaism • Parody • Passion play • Patriotism • personal appearance • Photoplay • Plagues of Egypt • popular culture • Popular History • Publicity • Puritans • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Redress • Religion • richard mansfield • Rigoletto • Romanticism • Rugged Individualism • Scientism • Self-Made Man (book) • Shakespeare's Plays • six acts • sound effect • Sunday school • Superiority (short story) • Sweetness and light • Symbolic Power • Testimonial • theatrical production • The Battle Hymn of the Republic • The Educational Alliance • The Locket • The Man of Destiny • The Moving Picture World • The Philosopher • The Various • Trade card • Twelfth Night • V. • Vice and Virtue • William Shakespeare
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6363-5 / 1400863635
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6363-1 / 9781400863631