Working-Class Hollywood : Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: THE RISE OF THE MOVIES: POLITICAL FILMMAKING AND THE WORKING CLASS -- Introduction -- 1. Going to the Movies: Leisure, Class, and Danger in the Early Twentieth Century -- 2. Visualizing the Working Class: Cinem...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: THE RISE OF THE MOVIES: POLITICAL FILMMAKING AND THE WORKING CLASS -- Introduction -- 1. Going to the Movies: Leisure, Class, and Danger in the Early Twentieth Century -- 2. Visualizing the Working Class: Cinema and Politics before Hollywood -- 3. The Good, the Bad, and the Violent: Class Conflict and the Labor-Capital Genre -- 4. Making a Pleasure of Agitation: The Rise of the Worker Film Movement -- PART II: THE RISE OF HOLLYWOOD: FROM WORKING CLASS TO MIDDLE CLASS -- 5. When Russia Invaded America: Hollywood, War, and the Movies -- 6. Struggles for the Screen: The Revival of the Worker Film Movement -- 7. Fantasy and Politics: Moviegoing and Movies in the 1920s -- 8. Lights Out: The Decline of Labor Filmmaking and the Triumph of Hollywood -- Epilogue The Movies Talk But What Do They Say? -- Appendixes I. Select Filmography -- II. Sources and Methods for Writing Film History -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung