Love Rules: Silent Hollywood and the Rise of the Managerial Class

by Mark Garrett Cooper

Book Overview

Traces the surprising connections between silent films and the rise of bureaucracy

Arguing for a sweeping new consideration of the shift from print to cinema as a governing system for organizing modern American social relations, this book uncovers an intimate connection between Hollywood romances of the silent era and the empowerment of a managerial class.

During the 1910s and 1920s, American movies told love...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816637539
• ISBN13: 9780816637539
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"