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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Institut des Amériques
2016-06-01
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