TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frykholm,Joel
TI  - George Kleine and American Cinema: the Movie Business and Film Culture in the Silent Era 
T2  - Cultural Histories of Cinema
SN  - 9781844577705
AV  - PN1993.5.U6 F79 2015
U1  - 791.430232092 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Basingstoke
PB  - British Film Institute
KW  - Kleine, George.
KW  - Motion picture producers and directors
KW  - United States
KW  - Motion picture industry
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - United States/20th Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. From the Optical Store to the MPPC; 2. The Breakthrough of the Multi-reel Feature Film; 3. After the Feature, Part 1: Standardisation, Differentiation and Branding (and the Search for the 'Punch'; 4. After the Feature, Part 2: George Kleine's Conservatism and the American Motion Picture Industry's Economy of 'Recklessness'; 5. 'The Purer Ether of Selective Cinema': George Kleine, Non-theatrical Cinema and Early Hollywood; Conclusion (and an epilogue); Notes; Bibliography; Index
N2  - "George Kleine was a New York City optician who moved to Chicago in 1893 to set up an optical store. In 1896 he branched out and began selling motion picture equipment and films. Within a few years he becameAmerica's largest film distributor and a pivotal figure in the movie business. In chronicling the career of this motion picture pioneer - including his rapid rise to fame and fortune, but also his gradual downfall after 1915 as the era of Hollywood began - Joel Frykholm provides an in-depth account of the emergence of the motion picture business in the United States and its development throughout the silent era. Through the lens of Kleine's fascinating career, this book explores how motion pictures gradually transformed from a novelty into an economic and cultural institution central to both American life and an increasingly globalised culture of mass entertainment."--Bloomsbury Publishing
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