Flickering Empire
How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry
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Word Count
60,000 words, Guess
Page Count
240 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- ISBN-100231174497
- ISBN-139780231174497
- Library of Congress Control Number2015296681
- OCLC Control Number900031618
- Better World Books9780231174497
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL27520172M
Classifications
- LCCPN1993.5.U74 S63 2015
- LCCPN1993.5.U74S63 2015
- LCCPN1993.5.U74 S65 2015
Description
Flickering Empire tells the fascinating yet little-known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of American film production in the years before the rise of Hollywood (1907-1913). As entertaining as it is informative, Flickering Empire straddles the worlds of academic and popular nonfiction in its vivid illustration of the rise and fall of the major Chicago movie studios in the mid-silent era (principally Essanay and Selig Polyscope). Colorful, larger-than-life historical figures, including Thomas Edison, Charlie Chaplin, Oscar Micheaux, and Orson Welles, are major players in the narrative -- in addition to important though forgotten industry titans, such as "Colonel" William Selig, George Spoor, and Gilbert "Broncho Billy" Anderson. -- Provided by publisher.
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- Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry
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