Realism and the birth of the modern United States : cinema, literature, and culture / Stanley Corkin...
Realism and the birth of the modern United States : cinema, literature, and culture / Stanley Corkin...
Realism and the birth of the modern United States : cinema, literature, and culture / Stanley Corkin.
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Publisher
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1996.
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N813.520912/3
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Language
English
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Physical content
x, 240 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. William Dean Howells and the Order of Progress -- 3. Thomas Edison and the Machine That Sees -- 4. Sister Carrie and the Natural Power of Things -- 5. Edwin S. Porter and the Facts of Intelligible Narrative -- 6. D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation: Positivist History as a C...
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Publisher
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1996.
Place of Publication
Georgia
Date Published
c1996.
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Summary
This book offers an interdisciplinary view of American culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using the conventions of historical study, Stanley Corkin draws out the ways in which the works of writers and filmmakers from 1885 to 1925 shaped and were shaped by the business, politics, and social life of the period. Corkin trace...
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Realism and the birth of the modern United States : cinema, literature, and culture / Stanley Corkin.
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Notes
General note
Revision of the author's thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-234) and index.
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c1996.
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N813.520912/3
Record Identifier
74VM52AQ82Pd
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ISBN
0820317306 (alk. paper)
9780820317304 (alk. paper)
DDC
813.520912
MMS ID
991003524989702626
