How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry
by
Michael Glover Smith, Adam Selzer
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
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...