Traces development of cinema from before world war I until its development as a major money industry.

In the twenty years preceding the First World War, cinema rapidly developed from a fairground curiosity into a major industry and social institution, a source o

This original and compelling book places the body at the center of cinema's first decade of emergence and challenges the idea that for early audiences, the new

The legendary filmmaker D. W. Griffith directed nearly 200 films during 1908 and 1909, his first years with the Biograph Company. While those one-reel films are