American workers, American movies: Historiography and methodology

International Labor and Working-Class History

Volumn , Issue 59, 2001, Pages 81-105

  Ross, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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References (20)

1. Author interview with Dave Beck, July 20, 1988, Seattle, Washington.
2. William J. Puette, Through Jaundiced Eyes: How the Media View Organized Labor (Ithaca, 1992), 31.
3. For an excellent overview of the changing focus of cinema studies, see Robert Sklar, "Oh! Althusser!: Historiography and the Rise of Cinema Studies," in Resisting Images: Essays on Cinema and History, ed. Robert Sklar and Charles Musser (Philadelphia, 1990), 12-35.
4. Terry Ramsaye, A Million and One Nights: A History of the Motion Picture Through 1925 (New York, 1925); Benjamin Hampton, A History of the Movies (New York, 1931); Mae Huettig, Economic Control of the Motion Picture Industry: A Study in Industrial Organization (Philadelphia, 1944); Upton Sinclair, Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox (Los Angeles, 1933, reprinted 1970).
5. Terry Ramsaye, A Million and One Nights: A History of the Motion Picture Through 1925 (New York, 1925); Benjamin Hampton, A History of the Movies (New York, 1931); Mae Huettig, Economic Control of the Motion Picture Industry: A Study in Industrial Organization (Philadelphia, 1944); Upton Sinclair, Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox (Los Angeles, 1933, reprinted 1970).
6. Terry Ramsaye, A Million and One Nights: A History of the Motion Picture Through 1925 (New York, 1925); Benjamin Hampton, A History of the Movies (New York, 1931); Mae Huettig, Economic Control of the Motion Picture Industry: A Study in Industrial Organization (Philadelphia, 1944); Upton Sinclair, Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox (Los Angeles, 1933, reprinted 1970).
7. Terry Ramsaye, A Million and One Nights: A History of the Motion Picture Through 1925 (New York, 1925); Benjamin Hampton, A History of the Movies (New York, 1931); Mae Huettig, Economic Control of the Motion Picture Industry: A Study in Industrial Organization (Philadelphia, 1944); Upton Sinclair, Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox (Los Angeles, 1933, reprinted 1970).
8. For Potamkin's essays, see Lewis Jacobs, ed., The Compound Cinema: The Film Writings of Harry Allan Potamkin (New York, 1977); for Platt's work, see Anthony Slide, annotator, Filmfront, reprinted edition (Metuchen, NJ, 1986).
9. For Potamkin's essays, see Lewis Jacobs, ed., The Compound Cinema: The Film Writings of Harry Allan Potamkin (New York, 1977); for Platt's work, see Anthony Slide, annotator, Filmfront, reprinted edition (Metuchen, NJ, 1986).
10. Lewis Jacobs, The Rise of American Film: A Critical History (New York, 1939; revised 1968), 149.
11. Ibid., 151.
12. Ibid., 397, 156, 518.
13. Quotes are from Robert Sklar, Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies (New York, 1975, revised 1994), 88, 90, 87; Garth Jowett, Film: The Democratic Art (Boston, 1976).
14. Quotes are from Robert Sklar, Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies (New York, 1975, revised 1994), 88, 90, 87; Garth Jowett, Film: The Democratic Art (Boston, 1976).
15. Kay Sloan, The Loud Silents: Origins of the Social Problem Film (Urbana, 1988), 3, 75-76; Kevin Brownlow, Behind the Mask of Innocence: Sex, Violence, Prejudice, Crime: Films of Social Conscience in the Silent Era (New York, 1990).
16. Kay Sloan, The Loud Silents: Origins of the Social Problem Film (Urbana, 1988), 3, 75-76; Kevin Brownlow, Behind the Mask of Innocence: Sex, Violence, Prejudice, Crime: Films of Social Conscience in the Silent Era (New York, 1990).
17. Steven J. Ross, Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America (Princeton, 1998), xiii.
18. Brownlow, Behind the Mask, 433. By doing some basic extrapolations, I found there were as many as 2,130 working-class and 1,053 labor-capital films released between 1911 and 1915. Ross, Working-Class Hollywood, 297-98, note 3. The Brandon Collection, which contains his research notes and unpublished manuscript "Populist Film," is an invaluable source of information for anyone working on class and politics in early American film. Thomas Brandon Collection, Film Studies Center, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
19. Brownlow, Behind the Mask, 433. By doing some basic extrapolations, I found there were as many as 2,130 working-class and 1,053 labor-capital films released between 1911 and 1915. Ross, Working-Class Hollywood, 297-98, note 3. The Brandon Collection, which contains his research notes and unpublished manuscript "Populist Film," is an invaluable source of information for anyone working on class and politics in early American film. Thomas Brandon Collection, Film Studies Center, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
20. For an analysis of these ideological categories and the ways in which filmmakers visualized their politics, see Ross, Working-Class Hollywood, 56-85.