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Full Title

George Kleine and American Cinema The Movie Business and Film Culture in the Silent Era 1st Edition

Author(s)

Joel Frykholm

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781838715922, 9781844577699

Publisher

British Film Institute

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

George Kleine was a New York City optician who moved to Chicago in 1893 to set up an optical store. In 1896 he branched out and began selling motion picture equipment and films. Within a few years he becameAmerica’s largest film distributor and a pivotal figure in the movie business. In chronicling the career of this motion picture pioneer – including his rapid rise to fame and fortune, but also his gradual downfall after 1915 as the era of Hollywood began – Joel Frykholm provides an in-depth account of the emergence of the motion picture business in the United States and its development throughout the silent era. Through the lens of Kleine’s fascinating career, this book explores how motion pictures gradually transformed from a novelty into an economic and cultural institution central to both American life and an increasingly globalised culture of mass entertainment.

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George Kleine and American Cinema The Movie Business and Film Culture in the Silent Era 1st Edition

SKU: 9781844577712

Original price was: $108.00.Current price is: $24.99.

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Full Title

George Kleine and American Cinema The Movie Business and Film Culture in the Silent Era 1st Edition

Author(s)

Joel Frykholm

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781844577712, 9781844577699

Publisher

British Film Institute

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

George Kleine was a New York City optician who moved to Chicago in 1893 to set up an optical store. In 1896 he branched out and began selling motion picture equipment and films. Within a few years he becameAmerica’s largest film distributor and a pivotal figure in the movie business. In chronicling the career of this motion picture pioneer – including his rapid rise to fame and fortune, but also his gradual downfall after 1915 as the era of Hollywood began – Joel Frykholm provides an in-depth account of the emergence of the motion picture business in the United States and its development throughout the silent era. Through the lens of Kleine’s fascinating career, this book explores how motion pictures gradually transformed from a novelty into an economic and cultural institution central to both American life and an increasingly globalised culture of mass entertainment.