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Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry

Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry

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ISBN10: 0231174497
ISBN13: 9780231174497
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Published: Jan 20 2015
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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.

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