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Pressing Matters: Media Crusades before the Nickelodeons

Pressing Matters: Media Crusades before the Nickelodeons

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Pressing Matters: Media Crusades before the Nickelodeons

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Pressing Matters: Media Crusades before the Nickelodeons

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Sydney: Indiana University Press

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Film history (New York, N.Y.), 2015-04, Vol.27 (2), p.105-139

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English

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Sydney: Indiana University Press

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Contents

Media crusades leveled at moving-picture exhibition in penny arcades and nickel shows are surprisingly consistent in their tropes and rhetorical strategies from the inaugural campaign in the San Francisco Call in 1899 to the famous one in the Chicago Tribune in 1907. This essay situates this emerging discourse on visual “corruption” alongside many...

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Pressing Matters: Media Crusades before the Nickelodeons

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TN_cdi_gale_infotracgeneralonefile_A424105598

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_gale_infotracgeneralonefile_A424105598

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0892-2160,1553-3905

E-ISSN

1553-3905

DOI

10.2979/filmhistory.27.2.105

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