Early American Cinema in Transition: Story, Style, and Filmmaking, 1907–1913

Contents

CONTENTS Tables IX Acknowledgments Xl 1 Introduction 3 2 "Boom Time in the Moving-Picture Business": Industrial Structure, Production Practices, and the Trade Press 20 3 "A Story Vital and Unified in Its Action": The Demands of Narrative 45 4 "An Immeasurably Greater Freedom": Time and Space in Transitional Cinema 83 5 ''The Modem Technique of the Art": The Style of Transitional Cinema 125 6 Analyzing Transition: Six Sample Films 175 7 Conclusion 205 Appendix A: Notes on Method 217 Appendix B: Shot-by-Shot Analyses for Chapter 6 220 Notes 236 Filmography: Viewed Titles, 1907-1913 270 Works Cited 287 Film Index 296 General Index 301 VII ...