Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: May 3, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780195140934
Subjects: Film theory & criticism; History of ideas, intellectual history; 20th century; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; USA; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism; Film & Video - General; History and criticism; Silent Films; United States
First sentence: 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.