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 23m
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 23 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Breaking into the Movies
2CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
3CHAPTER IX INSIDE THE BRAIN OF A MOVIE STAR
4CHAPTER X SALARIES IN THE MOVIES
5CHAPTER XI SCENARIOS
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6CHAPTER XII HOW OTHERS HAVE DONE IT
7CHAPTER XIII AMATEUR MOVIE MAKING
8Pictorial Beauty on the Screen
9CHAPTER I PICTORIAL ART IN THE MOVIES
10CHAPTER II THE PRACTICAL VALUE OF PICTORIAL COMPOSITION
11CHAPTER III EYE TESTS FOR BEAUTY
12CHAPTER IV PICTORIAL FORCE IN FIXED PATTERNS
13CHAPTER V. RHYTHM AND REPOSE IN FIXED DESIGN
14CHAPTER VI MOTIONS IN A PICTURE
15CHAPTER VII PICTORIAL MOTIONS AT WORK
16CHAPTER VIII PICTORIAL MOTIONS AT PLAY
17CHAPTER IX PICTORIAL MOTIONS AT REST
18CHAPTER X MASTERY IN THE MOVIES
19CHAPTER XI THE MYSTERIOUS EMOTIONS OF ART
20Behind the Screen
21Chapter One IN WHICH IS FILMED THE BIRTH OF A NOTION
22Chapter Two RECORDS THE SUCCESS OF AN IDEA
23Chapter Three MARY PICKFORD
24Chapter Four FASCINATING FANNY WARD
25Chapter Five MARGUERITE CLARK MISSES FIRE AND EDNA GOODRICH DOESN’T IGNITE AT ALL
26Chapter Six THE MISCHIEVOUSNESS OF MAE MURRAY
27Chapter Seven GERALDINE THE GREAT
28Chapter Eight THE DISCOVERY OF CHARLIE CHAPLIN
29Chapter Nine STARS, STARS, STARS!
30Chapter Ten THE MAGIC OF MARY GARDEN
31Chapter Eleven MAXINE ELLIOTT AND PAULINE FREDERICK
32Chapter Twelve A MARRIAGE OF TWO MINDS
33Chapter Thirteen THE REAL CHAPLIN
34Chapter Fourteen JACKIE COOGAN AND “THE KID”
35Chapter Fifteen DOUG AND MARY
36Chapter Sixteen RODOLPH VALENTINO
37Chapter Seventeen ROMANTIC TRUE STORIES OF SOME SCREEN FAVORITES
38Chapter Eighteen POLA NEGRI
39Chapter Nineteen THE TWO TALMADGES
40Chapter Twenty GOOD OLD WILL ROGERS
41Chapter Twenty-one SOME AUTHORS WHO HAVE TRAVELLED TO HOLLYWOOD
42INTRODUCTION
43I. TELLING YOUR ADVERTISING STORY BY MOTION PICTURES
44II. MOVIE ADVERTISING FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF A FAN
45III. THE DOLLARS AND CENTS OF ADVERTISING BY MOTION PICTURES
46IV. SOME FILM ADVERTISING METHODS FOR THE MANUFACTURER
47V. SLIDE AND FILM ADVERTISING CONTRASTED
48VI. USING THE FILM TO SECURE FOREIGN BUSINESS
49VII. APPROACHING THE WORKING CLASSES WITH A MOTION-PICTURE PLAY
50VIII. REACHING THE PUBLIC BY MOTION PICTURES
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