Musser takes us into the long-forgotten world of early cinemaunexpectedly sophisticated and yet radically different from current movie-making. Focusing on Edwin S. Porter, most often remembered as the producer of The Great Train Robbery, Musser situates Porter’s achievements within the vibrant context of turn-of-the-century popular culture and the commercial pragmatics of the Edison Manufacturing Companythe leading American film-producing entity from 1894 to 1908.
- ISBN10 0520069862
- ISBN13 9780520069862
- Publish Date 14 May 1991 (first published 1 January 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 March 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 591
- Language English