| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Politics, literature, and film |
| Summary |
In Beyond Free Speech and Propaganda: The Political Development of Hollywood, 19071927, Jay Douglas Steinmetz provides an original and detailed account of the political developments that shaped the American Film Industry in the silent years. In the 1900s and 1910s, the American film industry often embraced the arguments of film free speech and extolled the virtues of propagandistic cinemathe visual art of persuasion seen as part and parcel of deliberative democracy. The development of American cinema in these years was formatively shaped by conflicts with another industry of cultural consumption: liquor. Exhibitors battled with their competitors, the ubiquitous saloon, while film producers often attacked the immorality of drink with explosive propaganda on the screen. But the threat of censorship and economic regulation necessitated control and mastery over the social power of the cinema (its capacity to influence the public through the visualization of ideas) not an open medium of expression or an explicitly political instrument of molding public opinion |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Motion picture industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018001177 |
| ISBN |
9781498556811 |
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1498556817 |
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