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Through a detailed study of the circulation of European silent film in Australasia in the early twentieth century, this book challenges the historical myopia that treats Hollywood films as having always dominated global film culture.Before World War I, European silent feature films were ubiquitous in Australia and New Zealand, teaching Antipodean audiences about Continental cultures and familiarizing them with glamorous European stars, from Asta Nielsen to Emil Jannings. After the rise of Hollywood and then the shift to sound film, this history—and its implications for cross-cultural exchange—was lost. Julie K. Allen recovers that history, with its flamboyant participants, transnational currents, innovative genres, and geopolitical complications, bringing it all vividly to life.Making ground-breaking use of digitized Australian and New Zealand newspapers, the author reconstructs the distribution and exhibition of European silent films in the Antipodes, along the way incorporating compelling biographical sketches of the ambitious pioneers of the Australasian cinema industry. She reveals the complexity and competitiveness of the early cinema market, in a region with high consumer demand and low domestic production, and frames the dramatic shift to almost exclusively American cinema programming during World War I, contextualizing the rise of the art film in the 1920s in competition with mainstream Hollywood productions.

Films, cinema --- Media studies --- 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 --- Cinema industry --- Popular culture --- Australasia --- film, movies, cinema, silent film, Hollywood, popular entertainment, European, Australia

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À la fin des années vingt, le marché français est largement dominé par le cinéma américain. Le succès des films parlants, fondé sur la popularité des acteurs français, relance l’industrie du cinéma. Le parlant constitue une nouvelle chance pour le cinéma français. Après le départ de leurs fondateurs, les sociétés Pathé et Gaumont tentent d’adapter en France le modèle hollywoodien de la compagnie intégrée de cinéma. Mais l’amortissement des investissements effectués pour l’adaptation au parlant et la rénovation des salles s’avère difficile au moment de la baisse des recettes de 1933-1934 : la Gaumont-Franco-Film-Aubert est mise en liquidation judiciaire en 1934 et Pathé-Cinéma en faillite en 1936.L’échec de l’aventure de ces grandes compagnies provoque la première grande réflexion politique sur le statut du cinéma en France avec les rapports Petsche et de Carmoy. entre 1934 et 1939 s’élabore peu à peu un “modèle français” de cinématographie qui accorde à l’État un rôle d’encadrement et de soutien aux petites entreprises. Malgré les polémiques, les mesures protectionniste restent modestes. En 1939, le rôle nouveau de l’État s’affirme avec le décret sur le contrôle des recettes. La comptabilité de nombreuses salles, l’étude du fonctionnement des studios, des devis, des budgets de films et des contrats de distribution permettent de décrire l’évolution des différents stades de la filière cinématographique – production, distribution et exploitation – à partir de documents d’archives publiques et privées. Cette analyse confirme le caractère limité, tant en ampleur qu’en durée, de la crise en France. Pourtant, celle-ci a suffi à déséquilibrer les grandes compagnies.

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Cinematografie --- Cinematography --- Cinématographie --- Home movies --- Photography--Animated pictures --- Photography--Motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- Cinéma --- Philosophy --- Production and direction --- Philosophie --- Production et réalisation --- Cinéma --- Production et réalisation --- CDL --- 791.41 --- Motion Pictures --- Cinema --- Films --- Films as Topic --- Movies --- Movies as Topic --- Film --- Motion Picture --- Movie --- Cinemas --- Films as Topics --- Movies as Topics --- Picture, Motion --- Pictures, Motion --- Photography --- Chronophotography --- Direction of motion pictures --- Film-making (Motion pictures) --- Filmmaking (Motion pictures) --- Motion picture direction --- Motion picture plays --- Motion picture production --- Movie-making --- Moviemaking --- Production of motion pictures --- Animated pictures --- Direction --- Film theory and criticism --- Cinema industry

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In the early part of the twentieth century, migrants made their way from rural homes to cities in record numbers and many traveled west. Los Angeles became a destination. Women flocked to the growing town to join the film industry as workers and spectators, creating a "New Woman." Their efforts transformed filmmaking from a marginal business to a cosmopolitan, glamorous, and bohemian one. By 1920, Los Angeles had become the only western city where women outnumbered men. In Go West, Young Women, Hilary A. Hallett explores these relatively unknown new western women and their role in the development of Los Angeles and the nascent film industry. From Mary Pickford's rise to become perhaps the most powerful woman of her age, to the racist moral panics of the post-World War I years that culminated in Hollywood's first sex scandal, Hallett describes how the path through early Hollywood presaged the struggles over modern gender roles that animated the century to come.

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