Buccaneer: James Stuart Blackton and the Birth of American Movies

by Donald Dewey

This is an in-depth look at the life and career of James Stuart Blackton (1875-1941), the first great commercial vendor of cinema who grasped that motion pictures were not merely a technical innovation, but a popular entertainment form for the masses. Blackton was a man of many firsts in the film industry: the first combination actor-director-producer in the United States, the country's first national exhibitor, and the first film propagandist. He...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442242582
• ISBN13: 9781442242586
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"