02692nam 2200493 450 991079620300332120230126220257.09781498556811 (ebook)1498556817 (ebook)(CKB)3790000000535525(MiAaPQ)EBC5151569(EXLCZ)99379000000053552520180109d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierBeyond free speech and propaganda the political development of Hollywood, 1907-1927 /Jay Douglas SteinmetzLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,[2018]©20181 online resourcePolitics, Literature, and FilmDescription based upon print version of record.1-4985-5680-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.In Beyond Free Speech and Propaganda: The Political Development of Hollywood, 19071927, Jay Douglas Steinmetz provides an original and detailed account of the political developments that shaped the American Film Industry in the silent years. In the 1900s and 1910s, the American film industry often embraced the arguments of film free speech and extolled the virtues of propagandistic cinemathe visual art of persuasion seen as part and parcel of deliberative democracy. The development of American cinema in these years was formatively shaped by conflicts with another industry of cultural consumption: liquor. Exhibitors battled with their competitors, the ubiquitous saloon, while film producers often attacked the immorality of drink with explosive propaganda on the screen. But the threat of censorship and economic regulation necessitated control and mastery over the social power of the cinema (its capacity to influence the public through the visualization of ideas) not an open medium of expression or an explicitly political instrument of molding public opinion.Politics, literature, & film.Motion picturesPolitical aspectsUnited StatesMotion picturesSocial aspectsUnited StatesMotion picture industryUnited StatesHistory20th centuryMotion picturesPolitical aspectsMotion picturesSocial aspectsMotion picture industryHistory791.43658Steinmetz Jay Douglas1556661MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQSFUBOOK9910796203003321Beyond free speech and propaganda3819530UNINA