The World of Cinema: 4 Classic Books on the Film Industry
Foundational Writings on Silent Film, Screenwriting, Studio Labor, and Hollywood's RiseBy Ernest A. Dench, Anita Loos, John Emerson, Victor Oscar Freeburg, Samuel Goldwyn
Length19h 22m
About this audiobook
The World of Cinema gathers four foundational texts from the formative decades of film culture, tracing cinema's emergence as an art, a business, and a mass-mediated social force. Across criticism, practical instruction, memoir-like reflection, and industry analysis, the volume illuminates the shifting relations among performance, scenario writing, spectatorship, technology, and studio organization. Its juxtaposition of aesthetic argument with firsthand professional knowledge makes the collection especially valuable: cinema appears not as a settled medium, but as an energetic field in which artistic ambition and commercial calculation continually meet. The contributors represent several essential constituencies of early film history: writers attentive to narrative and screen personality, performers and practitioners shaped by production culture, theorists concerned with the medium's formal possibilities, and a major producer's voice on the industry's institutional power. Together, Ernest A. Dench, Anita Loos, John Emerson, Victor Oscar Freeburg, and Samuel Goldwyn situate film within the modernist-era expansion of popular culture. Their differing assumptions and priorities reveal how early cinema generated debate over authorship, realism, entertainment, and cultural legitimacy. Recommended for students, historians, and devoted viewers alike, this volume offers an unusually rich entry into the intellectual world surrounding classical Hollywood and early film theory. Readers will find a stimulating dialogue among contrasting styles and perspectives, while gaining a broader understanding of how cinema learned to describe itself.
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GenreOther, Literary Classics
Length19 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Breaking into the Movies
2Breaking into the movies
3CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
4CHAPTER IX INSIDE THE BRAIN OF A MOVIE STAR
5CHAPTER X SALARIES IN THE MOVIES
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6CHAPTER XI SCENARIOS
7CHAPTER XII HOW OTHERS HAVE DONE IT
8CHAPTER XIII AMATEUR MOVIE MAKING
9INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO PART II
10RED HOT ROMANCE
11Pictorial Beauty on the Screen
12CHAPTER I PICTORIAL ART IN THE MOVIES
13CHAPTER II THE PRACTICAL VALUE OF PICTORIAL COMPOSITION
14CHAPTER III EYE TESTS FOR BEAUTY
15CHAPTER IV PICTORIAL FORCE IN FIXED PATTERNS
16CHAPTER V. RHYTHM AND REPOSE IN FIXED DESIGN
17CHAPTER VI MOTIONS IN A PICTURE
18CHAPTER VII PICTORIAL MOTIONS AT WORK
19CHAPTER VIII PICTORIAL MOTIONS AT PLAY
20CHAPTER IX PICTORIAL MOTIONS AT REST
21CHAPTER X MASTERY IN THE MOVIES
22CHAPTER XI THE MYSTERIOUS EMOTIONS OF ART
23Behind the Screen
24Chapter One IN WHICH IS FILMED THE BIRTH OF A NOTION
25Chapter Two RECORDS THE SUCCESS OF AN IDEA
26Chapter Three MARY PICKFORD
27Chapter Four FASCINATING FANNY WARD
28Chapter Five MARGUERITE CLARK MISSES FIRE AND EDNA GOODRICH DOESN’T IGNITE AT ALL
29Chapter Six THE MISCHIEVOUSNESS OF MAE MURRAY
30Chapter Seven GERALDINE THE GREAT
31Chapter Eight THE DISCOVERY OF CHARLIE CHAPLIN
32Chapter Nine STARS, STARS, STARS!
33Chapter Ten THE MAGIC OF MARY GARDEN
34Chapter Eleven MAXINE ELLIOTT AND PAULINE FREDERICK
35Chapter Twelve A MARRIAGE OF TWO MINDS
36Chapter Thirteen THE REAL CHAPLIN
37Chapter Fourteen JACKIE COOGAN AND “THE KID”
38Chapter Fifteen DOUG AND MARY
39Chapter Sixteen RODOLPH VALENTINO
40Chapter Seventeen ROMANTIC TRUE STORIES OF SOME SCREEN FAVORITES
41Chapter Eighteen POLA NEGRI
42Chapter Nineteen THE TWO TALMADGES
43Chapter Twenty GOOD OLD WILL ROGERS
44Chapter Twenty-one SOME AUTHORS WHO HAVE TRAVELLED TO HOLLYWOOD
45INTRODUCTION
46I. TELLING YOUR ADVERTISING STORY BY MOTION PICTURES
47II. MOVIE ADVERTISING FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF A FAN
48III. THE DOLLARS AND CENTS OF ADVERTISING BY MOTION PICTURES
49IV. SOME FILM ADVERTISING METHODS FOR THE MANUFACTURER
50V. SLIDE AND FILM ADVERTISING CONTRASTED
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