From “Plain Abe” to Mythical Mr. Lincoln. Constructing various representational modes of a screen icon

The first exercises in Lincoln screen iconography started in the early 1900s, most notably with the tableau shot at the close of Edwin Porter’s 1903 Uncle Tom’s Cabin produced by the Edison Film Company and representing Lincoln freeing a slave, and with Essanay Studios’ 1908 The Life of Abraham Linc...

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Main Author: Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut des Amériques 2016-06-01
Series:IdeAs
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ideas/1424
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