Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry

by Adam Selzer and Michael Glover Smith

Book Overview

Flickering Empire tells the fascinating yet little-known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of American film production in the years before the rise of Hollywood (1907-1913). As entertaining as it is informative, Flickering Empire straddles the worlds of academic and popular nonfiction in its vivid illustration of the rise and fall of the major Chicago movie studios in the mid-silent era (principally Essanay and Selig...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231174497
• ISBN13: 9780231174497
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher