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The works of Shakespeare and Dante or the figures of George Washington and Moses do not often enter into popular conceptions of the silent cinema, yet, between 1907 and 1910, the Vitagraph Company frequently used such material in producing 鈥渜uality鈥� films that promulgated 鈥渞espectable鈥� culture. William Uricchio and Roberta Pearson situate these films in an era of immigration, labor unrest, and mainstream American xenophobia, in order to explore the cultural views promoted by the films and the ways the audiences—the middle classes as well as workers and immigrants—related to what they saw. The authors associate the production of quality films with a top-down forging of cultural consensus on issues such as patriotism and morality, and reveal the surprising bottom-up negotiations of these films鈥� 鈥渕eanings.鈥�.

Devoting chapters to the literary, historical, and biblical subjects used by Vitagraph, this book draws upon plays, pageants, school textbooks, and even product advertisements to illuminate the conditions of cinematic production and reception. It provides a detailed look at one aspect of the film industry’s transformation from 鈥渄espised cheap amusement鈥� to the nation’s dominant mass medium, while showing how cultural elites engaged in a struggle similar to that of today’s American academy over the literary canon and national value systems.

Originally published in 1993.

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