Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company (The Ucla Film and Television Archive Studies in History, Criticism, and Theory)

Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company (The Ucla Film and Television Archive Studies in History, Criticism, and Theory)





Musser takes us into the long-forgotten world of early cinemaunexpectedly sophisticated and yet radically different from current movie-making. Focusing on Edwin S. Porter, most often remembered as the producer of The Great Train Robbery, Musser situates Porters achievements within the vibrant context of turn-of-the-century popular culture and the commercial pragmatics of the Edison Manufacturing Companythe leading American film- producing entity from 1894 to 1908.









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