EARLY AMERICAN

CINEMA
IN TRANSITION
STORY, STYLE, AND
FILMMAKING, 1907-1913

Charlie Keil

The University of Wisconsin Press

 CONTENTS

Tables ix
Acknowledgments xi

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 Modern 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

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