American Cinema of the 1920s

LUCY FISCHER is a Distinguished Professor of Film Studies and English at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Designing Women: Art Deco, Cinema, and the Female Form, among many other publications.

"This most recent volume in the Screen Decades series, which looks at American culture and American cinema decade by decade, offers ten essays on the cinema of what F. Scott Fitzgerald termed 'the jazz age.' These fresh, insightful essays spark attention on the era of emancipation, Prohibition, materialism, the arrival of radio and sound films, and, of course, bobbed hair. Recommended." (Choice) “There is nothing like this series. Screen Decades firmly situates American cinema in the realms of material culture, popular culture, cultural narrative, reception analysis, and industrial history.”(American Quarterly) "This most recent volume in the Screen Decades series, which looks at American culture and American cinema decade by decade, offers ten essays on the cinema of what F. Scott Fitzgerald termed 'the jazz age.' These fresh, insightful essays spark attention on the era of emancipation, Prohibition, materialism, the arrival of radio and sound films, and, of course, bobbed hair. Recommended." (Choice) “There is nothing like this series. Screen Decades firmly situates American cinema in the realms of material culture, popular culture, cultural narrative, reception analysis, and industrial history.”(American Quarterly)

• AcknowledgmentsTimeline: The 1920sIntroduction The Twenties and Cinema, Lucy Fischer1920 Movies, Margarine and Main Street, Michael Aronson1921 Movies and Personality, Mark Lynn Anderson1922 Movies and the Perilous Future, Sara Ross1923 Movies and the Changing Body Of Cinema, Marcia Landy1924 Movies and Play, Jennifer M. Bean1925 Movies and a Year of Change, Gwenda Young1926 Movies and Divine Stars, Defining Gender, Maureen Turim 1927 Movies and the New Woman as Consumer, Sumiko Higashi1928 Movies, Social Conformity, and Imminent Traumas, Angela Dalle Vacche1929 Crashes and Finales, Lucy Fischer Select Academy Awards, 1927-1929Works Cited and ConsultedContributorsIndex