- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
Part 1 Beginnings, 1880–1912 -
1 Stage Apprenticeship -
2 Starting in Films -
Part 2 Making a Reputation, 1912–1915 -
3 The Job of a Producer -
4 Establishing a Studio -
Part 3 Innovations, 1914–1917 -
5 Generic Experimentation -
6 The Prescient Failure -
Part 4 Paramount, 1917–1921 -
7 A Fresh Start -
8 The Star Series -
9 World War I and Specials -
Part 5 The Perils of an Independent, 1919–1924 -
10 Associated Producers, 1919–1921 -
11 The Inevitable Merger, 1921–1922 -
12 War with First National, 1922 -
13 The Studio Resumes Production, 1922–1923 -
14 Case Study of a Production and Its Personnel: Her Reputation, 1922–1923 -
15 Initial Distribution beyond First National, 1923 -
16 At the Crossroads, 1923–1924 -
17 The Steady Hum of Independent Production, 1924 - Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
Generic Experimentation
Generic Experimentation
- Chapter:
- (p.75) 5 Generic Experimentation
- Source:
- Thomas Ince
- Author(s):
Brian Taves
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
Ince's willingness to tackle subjects usually avoided by others, and unhesitatingly to do so with skill, was noted by reviewers of the time. One reviewer remarked, “When Mr. Ince has anything to say in pictures he has always gone ahead and said it, even in his two reel Bronchos and Kay-Bee. He has said very daring things and put them across without absurdity, ridiculousness, or mawkishness, and he has made observers marvel at his sheer audacity.” Because of this willingness, he became one of the first pioneers in the film business to foreground ethnicity, claiming, “Naturalness is even more essential on the screen than on the stage, because everything is real in a picture—real scenery, real properties, real atmosphere. Personal artificiality glares in contrast with such background.”
Keywords: Thomas Ince, motion pictures, film making, ethnicity
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- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
Part 1 Beginnings, 1880–1912 -
1 Stage Apprenticeship -
2 Starting in Films -
Part 2 Making a Reputation, 1912–1915 -
3 The Job of a Producer -
4 Establishing a Studio -
Part 3 Innovations, 1914–1917 -
5 Generic Experimentation -
6 The Prescient Failure -
Part 4 Paramount, 1917–1921 -
7 A Fresh Start -
8 The Star Series -
9 World War I and Specials -
Part 5 The Perils of an Independent, 1919–1924 -
10 Associated Producers, 1919–1921 -
11 The Inevitable Merger, 1921–1922 -
12 War with First National, 1922 -
13 The Studio Resumes Production, 1922–1923 -
14 Case Study of a Production and Its Personnel: Her Reputation, 1922–1923 -
15 Initial Distribution beyond First National, 1923 -
16 At the Crossroads, 1923–1924 -
17 The Steady Hum of Independent Production, 1924 - Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
