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- Title
Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber: Hypocrites and the Allegorical Mode of the Transitional Feature Film.
- Authors
YOUNG, PAUL
- Abstract
Lois Weber's episodic feature film Hypocrites (1915) poses a challenge to one principle that is thought to have guided American cinema toward classical narrative: the self-effacement of narrative discourse. Weber's film, and its critical and financial success in a year of such proto-classical landmarks as DeMille's The Cheat and Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, reveals the viability, however brief, of a reflexive, allegorical model for the feature-length film during the transition to classical form.
- Subjects
HYPOCRITES (Film); MOTION pictures; WEBER, Lois; GRIFFITH, D. W. (David Wark), 1875-1948; MOTION picture plots &; themes; BLOT, The (Film); ALLEGORY in motion pictures; MOTION picture history
- Publication
Cinema Journal, 2015, Vol 55, Issue 1, p95
- ISSN
0009-7101
- Publication type
Film/Television Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/cj.2015.0061