How Long to Read Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth

How Long Does it Take to Read Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth?

It takes the average reader 21 hours and 56 minutes to read Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth by Paula Marantz Cohen

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth connects the rise of film and the rise of America as a cultural center and twentieth-century world power. Silent film, Paula Cohen reveals, allowed America to sever its literary and linguistic ties to Europe and answer the call by nineteenth-century writers like Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman for an original form of expression compatible with American strengths and weaknesses. When film finally began to talk in 1927, the medium had already done its work. It had helped translate representation into a dynamic visual form and had "Americanized" the world. Cohen explores the way film emerged as an American medium through its synthesis of three basic elements: the body, the landscape, and the face. Nineteenth-century American culture had already charged these elements with meaning--the body through vaudeville and burlesque, landscape through landscape painting and moving panoramas, and the face through portrait photography. Integrating these popular forms, silent film also developed genres that showcased each of its basic elements: the body in comedy, the landscape in the western, and the face in melodrama. At the same time, it helped produce a new idea of character, embodied in the American movie star. Cohen's book offers a fascinating new perspective on American cultural history. It shows how nineteenth-century literature can be said to anticipate twentieth-century film--how Douglas Fairbanks was, in a sense, successor to Walt Whitman. And rather than condemning the culture of celebrity and consumption that early Hollywood helped inspire, the book highlights the creative and democratic features of the silent-film ethos. Just as notable, Cohen champions the concept of the "American myth" in the wake of recent attempts to discredit it. She maintains that American silent film helped consolidate and promote a myth of possibility and self-making that continues to dominate the public imagination and stands behind the best impulses of our contemporary world.

How long is Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth?

Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth by Paula Marantz Cohen is 1,286 pages long, and a total of 329,216 words.

This makes it 434% the length of the average book. It also has 402% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 29 hours and 58 minutes to read Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth aloud.

What Reading Level is Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth?

Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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