Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture: The Silent Era

by Sumiko Higashi

Book Overview

Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture demonstrates that the director, best remembered for his overblown biblical epics, was one of the most remarkable film pioneers of the Progressive Era. In this innovative work, which integrates cultural history and cultural studies, Sumiko Higashi shows how DeMille artfully inserted cinema into genteel middle-class culture by replicating in his films such spectacles as elaborate parlor games, stage melodramas,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520085574
• ISBN13: 9780520085572
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"