2013, ISBN: 9780307829702

eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), From Kevin Brownlow, cinema historian and discoverer of lost films, here is the first full-scale exploration of a vital and now almost forgotten chapter of … Mehr…

eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), From Kevin Brownlow, cinema historian and discoverer of lost films, here is the first full-scale exploration of a vital and now almost forgotten chapter of American moviemaking: the response of early producers of the decades before World War I. &#160; All the issues that torment America today were rampant in the silent-film era: crime, poverty, alcohol, drugs, racial and ethnic prejudice, epidemics, and the controversies over birth control, abortion, and the death penalty. And there were others that persist today but were then even more explosive: sexual mores, government and police corruption, prison conditions, immigration, and strife between capital and labor. Although many early moviemakers ignored harsh realities, choosing to depict a society shielded by a &ldquo;mask of innocence,&rdquo; others went behind that fa&ccedil;ade, fighting the ever-present censors and producing films that made even the most sheltered moviegoer aware of deep rents in the country&rsquo;s social fabric. Some films were exploitative, some serious, but together they add up to a revelation of the dark side of American life&mdash;a revelation startling to us today because it was later, in the era of the Hays Office, so thoroughly ignored, indeed denied, by Hollywood. &#160; Broken Blossoms, The Crowd, Humoresque, Regeneration: these films that have survived and become classics are, in these pages, studied in their historical context. And although a tragic number of other films have vanished, nearly all are reclaimed from oblivion by Mr. Brownlow&rsquo;s brilliant feat of restoration and descriptive &ldquo;reconstruction.&rdquo; Here, never again to be forgotten, are The Fall of the Romanoffs, The Racket, Those Who Dance, and dozens of others. &#160; With this remarkable book, Kevin Brownlow completes the panoramic trilogy that began with The Parade&rsquo;s Gone By&hellip; and continued with The War, the West, and the Wilderness. Like its predecessors, Behind the Mask of Innocence is an essential work of silent-film history, certain to become a standard reference; but it is more&mdash;at once a surprising portrait of a time not unlike our own and a powerful demonstration of the way in which a popular art form can reveal a society to itself. [PU: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group], Seiten: 592, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013<

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2013, ISBN: 9780307829702

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