American Cinema's Transitional Era: Audiences, Institutions, Practices

"An excellent collection that takes a broad and inclusive view of a remarkably interesting era. Bringing together an impressive line-up of film historians, Keil and Stamp's collection is a significant contribution to our understanding of early American cinema."—Gregory Waller, author of Main Street Amusements and Moviegoing in America

"This anthology refines our understanding of pre-classical American film and presents new research on the transitional era. The essays reveal an illuminating discussion of this important period in North American film. The scholarship is superior, and the organization of material exemplary. The volume is a timely and important contribution to the historiography of pre-classical cinema in the U.S."—John Fullerton, Stockholm University, co-editor of Nordic Explorations: Film Before 1930

Charlie Keil is Associate Professor of History and Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto and author of Early American Cinema in Transition: Story, Style, and Filmmaking, 1907-1913 (2001). Shelley Stamp is Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon (2000).