SILENT FILM AND THE TRIUMPH OF THE AMERICAN MYTH - PAULA MARANTZ COHEN

AT ONE POINT in Mary Pickford's 1917 film, The Little American, Mary's character, a young American woman who has recently arrived in France to visit a relative, finds herself caught in the throes of World War I and faced with a band of vicious "Huns" who have broken into the chateau where she is staying.. AT ONE POINT in Mary Pickford's 1917 film, The Little American, Mary's character, a young American woman who has recently arrived in France to visit a relative, finds herself caught in the throes of World War I and faced with a band of vicious "Huns" who have broken into the chateau where she is staying.In Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth, Paula Marantz Cohen tells the story of silent film's rise. American silent film, she contends, answered the call by nineteenth-century writers like Emerson and Thoreau for an original mode of expression compatible with American strengths and weaknesses. Tracing silent film's roots in popular nineteenth-century forms such as vaudeville, landscape painting, and portrait photography, Cohen documents the way silent film took three elements already charged with meaning - the body, the landscape, and the face - and developed the cinematic genres of comedy, the western, and the melodrama. At the same time, American silent film helped produce a new concept of character, embodied in the movie star. -- from back cover. Discover More...

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