Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth

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Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth is written by Paula Marantz Cohen and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0195343883 (ISBN 10) and 9780195343885 (ISBN 13).

Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth is a broad cultural study that connects the rise of film to the rise of America as a cultural center and world power in the twentieth century. Cohen argues that through the medium of silent film, America was able to sever its literary and linguistic ties to Europe, assert its cultural independence, and forge a unique form of cultural expression. Silent films drew on elements developed in popular forms of representation like photography, landscape panoramas, and vaudeville performance to create a medium that more accurately represented the American experience.