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This carefully researched and nuanced account of local film history is essential reading for researchers and students who are interested in understanding the evolution of film culture as it played out beyond Hollywood.

* Early Popular Visual Culture *

[A] quietly radical rewriting of American film history since the 1910s.

* Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television *

Table of Contents

Accessing Moving Images
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Defining the Local Film
1. The Silent Pageant: Municipal Booster Films
2. The Home Talent Film and the Origins of Itinerancy
3. "How Movies Are Made": Hollywood and the Local Film
4. Itinerants Adopt a Baby: The Local Hollywood Film and the Operational Aesthetic
5. Kidnapping the Movie Queen: Amateur Aesthetics as Cultural Critique
6. The Cameraman Has Visited Your Town: The Local Film and the Politics of Recognition
7. Every Town has its Main Street: The Banal Localism of the Civic Film
8. Reclaiming the Local Film: Artifacts, Archives, and Audiences
Conclusion: See Your Town Disappear: The Historicity of the Local Film
Filmography
Bibliography
Index

Main Street Movies

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      Publisher Indiana University Press
      Published 23 January 2018
      ISBN-13 9780253032522
      978-0253032522
      ISBN-10 0253032520
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      Film, TV and Radio industries Film history, theory or criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      This carefully researched and nuanced account of local film history is essential reading for researchers and students who are interested in understanding the evolution of film culture as it played out beyond Hollywood.

      * Early Popular Visual Culture *

      [A] quietly radical rewriting of American film history since the 1910s.

      * Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television *

      Table of Contents

      Accessing Moving Images
      Acknowledgments
      Abbreviations
      Introduction: Defining the Local Film
      1. The Silent Pageant: Municipal Booster Films
      2. The Home Talent Film and the Origins of Itinerancy
      3. "How Movies Are Made": Hollywood and the Local Film
      4. Itinerants Adopt a Baby: The Local Hollywood Film and the Operational Aesthetic
      5. Kidnapping the Movie Queen: Amateur Aesthetics as Cultural Critique
      6. The Cameraman Has Visited Your Town: The Local Film and the Politics of Recognition
      7. Every Town has its Main Street: The Banal Localism of the Civic Film
      8. Reclaiming the Local Film: Artifacts, Archives, and Audiences
      Conclusion: See Your Town Disappear: The Historicity of the Local Film
      Filmography
      Bibliography
      Index

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