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Book Synopsis
Refuting virtually every previous account of the founding and development of the American motion picture industry, this entertaining biography pays tribute to a pioneer whose many innovations helped to create Hollywood as we know it today.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: The Forgotten Pioneer
  • 1. The Birth of a Motion Picture Company
  • 2. Making Westerns in the West
  • 3. The Creation of the Movie Cowboy
  • 4. Selig in Eden: The Genesis of Movies in Los Angeles
  • 5. Selig’s Cinematic Jungles and Zoo
  • 6. Leading the World
  • 7. Actualities, Expeditions, and Newsreels
  • 8. The Development of the Feature Film
  • 9. Exiled from Eden
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Suggested Reading and Selected Selig Filmography
  • Index

Col. William N. Selig the Man Who Invented

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 01/03/2012
      ISBN13: 9780292754379, 978-0292754379
      ISBN10: 029275437X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Refuting virtually every previous account of the founding and development of the American motion picture industry, this entertaining biography pays tribute to a pioneer whose many innovations helped to create Hollywood as we know it today.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Abbreviations
      • Introduction: The Forgotten Pioneer
      • 1. The Birth of a Motion Picture Company
      • 2. Making Westerns in the West
      • 3. The Creation of the Movie Cowboy
      • 4. Selig in Eden: The Genesis of Movies in Los Angeles
      • 5. Selig’s Cinematic Jungles and Zoo
      • 6. Leading the World
      • 7. Actualities, Expeditions, and Newsreels
      • 8. The Development of the Feature Film
      • 9. Exiled from Eden
      • Conclusion
      • Notes
      • Suggested Reading and Selected Selig Filmography
      • Index

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