| Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry Contributor(s): Smith, Michael Glover (Author), Selzer, Adam (Author) |
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ISBN: 0231174489 ISBN-13: 9780231174480 Publisher: Wallflower Press OUR PRICE: $84.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Telecommunications - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Performing Arts | Film - Guides & Reviews |
| Dewey: 384.8 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |