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Higashi, Sumiko Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture: The Silent Era
Berkeley University of California Press (c.1994) 0-520-08557-4 / 9780520085572 1st printing Softcover Near Fine
[very light handling wear, almost like new]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) This scholarly study of DeMille's silent film work "shows that the director best remembered today for overblown biblical epics was in fact one of the most remarkable pioneers in the film industry during the Progressive Era. In an innovative work that illustrates the intersection of cultural history with cultural studies, [the author] describes how DeMille artfully introduced cinema -- yet to achieve legitimacy as an art form -- into middle-class culture. He accomplished this by emphasizing the function of spectacle in public venues such as stage melodramas, department store displays, Orientalist world's fairs, civic pageantry, and lantern slide lectures, as well as in elaborate parlor games."
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