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Introduction: Early Hollywood and the Archive
- Film History: An International Journal
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 26, Number 2, 2014
- pp. vii-xiv
- 10.2979/filmhistory.26.2.vii
- Article
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This introduction frames the following essays in relation to two broad developments in the historiography of early Hollywood. First, it posits a new cultural textualism on the part of historians who explore how the idea of Hollywood was constructed across a range of discourses. Second, it correlates this approach with a new sensitivity to the historical value of archival marginalia and miscellany.