The Decline of Sentiment
American Film in the 1920s
Contents
Preface..........................................ix
1. TOWARD A HISTORY OF TASTE.....................1
2. HOLLYWOOD NATURALISM..........................25
3. SOPHISTICATED COMEDY..........................79
4. THE MALE ADVENTURE STORY......................127
5. THE SEDUCTION PLOT............................180
6. THE ROMANTIC DRAMA............................217
AFTERWORD........................................274
Notes............................................277
Bibliography.....................................315
Filmography......................................327
Index............................................343
Chapter One
Toward a History of Taste
The real war had been fought during the decade before 1920, when
almost every new writer was a recruit to the army against gentility,
and when older writers like Dreiser and Robinson were being
rescued from neglect and praised as leaders. In those days, Mabel
Dodge's salon, the Provinc ... read full excerpt from The Decline of Sentiment: American Film in the 1920s ebook
