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The progress and poetry of the movies : a second book of film criticism / Vachel Lindsay ; edited and with commentary by Myron Lounsbury.

Title
The progress and poetry of the movies : a second book of film criticism / Vachel Lindsay ; edited and with commentary by Myron Lounsbury.
Author
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931.
Publication
Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Lounsbury, Myron.
  • Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931.
Description
vii, 449 p., [32] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931
  • Motion pictures
Genre/Form
  • Motion pictures
  • Films.
Note
  • Continues: The art of the moving picture.
  • Includes index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
pt. I. Vachel Lindsay, Movie Man. 1. Spokane, 1925. 2. Young Man Lindsay: From Local Gadfly to Cultural Authority. 3. Middle-Aged Sideshow: From Higher Vaudeville to Cultural Caricature. 4. Resisting Caricature: Pictorial Literacy and the Act of Re-Collection. 5. Prospero's Classroom: Mirrors, Movies and Gulf-Coast Mirandas. 6. Northwest Tryout: Instructing the Privileged of the Inland Empire. 7. At Hollywood's Gate: Message to a Movie Capital (1925) -- pt. II. The Progress and Poetry of the Movies / Vachel Lindsay -- Prologue: The $10,000 Zukor Prize and Rafael Sabatini, the Winner. Ch. I. The Artistic Position of Douglas Fairbanks and The Thief of Bagdad Production.
ISBN
0810829177
LCCN
^^^94016749^
OCLC
30517707
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library