"Lea Jacobs's groundbreaking book examines the crucial films, both well-known and until now obscure, that marked a decisive shift in 1920s American cinematic sensibility and taste-from 'hokum' to 'sophistication, ' a change that would inflect future Hollywood filmmaking. All serious scholars of American film history will read this book with admiration and find its insights as well as its methods an inspiration."--Matthew Bernstein, author of "Walter Wanger: Hollywood Independent" ""The Decline of Sentiment" is an ...
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"Lea Jacobs's groundbreaking book examines the crucial films, both well-known and until now obscure, that marked a decisive shift in 1920s American cinematic sensibility and taste-from 'hokum' to 'sophistication, ' a change that would inflect future Hollywood filmmaking. All serious scholars of American film history will read this book with admiration and find its insights as well as its methods an inspiration."--Matthew Bernstein, author of "Walter Wanger: Hollywood Independent" ""The Decline of Sentiment" is an impressively researched and quite original book. Again and again, Jacobs makes persuasive arguments. This is an outstanding contribution to scholarship."--James Naremore, author of "More Than Night: Film Noir in its Contexts"
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