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 | #743274 in Books |  Paula Marantz Cohen |  2001-05-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.90 x.70 x5.70l,.74 | File Name: 019514094X | 234 pages

 | Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth


||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Great read for anyone interested in media and visual culture|By Natori Moore|This surprisingly profound book provides significant insight into the history of silent film in the United States and how the primary building blocks of body, landscape and face came to be combined in film to put forth both conscious and subconscious ideals of American culture. The author uses excell|From Library Journal|Veteran cultural critic Cohen (Alfred Hitchcock: The Legacy of Victorianism) explores the advent of the silent film, asserting that the early 20th-century medium represented what American society at the time both embraced (e.g., authentic e

Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth connects the rise of film and the rise of America as a cultural center and twentieth-century world power. Silent film, Paula Cohen reveals, allowed America to sever its literary and linguistic ties to Europe and answer the call by nineteenth-century writers like Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman for an original form of expression compatible with American strengths and weaknesses. When film finally began to talk in 192...


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