The Decline of Sentiment: American Film in the 1920s

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University of California Press, 02‏/04‏/2008 - 358 من الصفحات
The Decline of Sentiment seeks to characterize the radical shifts in taste that transformed American film in the jazz age. Based upon extensive reading of trade papers and the popular press of the day, Lea Jacobs documents the films and film genres that were considered old-fashioned, as well as those dubbed innovative and up-to-date, and looks closely at the works of filmmakers such as Erich von Stroheim, Charlie Chaplin, Ernst Lubitsch, and Monta Bell, among many others. Her analysis—focusing on the influence of literary naturalism on the cinema, the emergence of sophisticated comedy, and the progressive alteration of the male adventure story and the seduction plot—is a comprehensive account of the modernization of classical Hollywood film style and narrative form.

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1 toward a history of taste
1
2 hollywood naturalism
25
3 sophisticated comedy
79
4 the male adventure story
127
5 the seduction plot
180
6 the romantic drama
217
afterword
274
Notes
277
Bibliography
315
Filmography
327
Index
343
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نبذة عن المؤلف (2008)

Lea Jacobs is Professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is author of The Wages of Sin: Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film, 1929-1942 (UC Press) and Theatre to Cinema: Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film.

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