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Traces the surprising connections between silent films and the rise of
bureaucracy.
LOVE RULES: Silent Hollywood and the Rise of the Managerial Class
Mark Garrett Cooper
University of Minnesota Press | 304 pages | 2003
ISBN 0-8166-3752-0 | hardcover | $54.95
ISBN 0-8166-3753-9 | paperback | $19.95
Through close study of such films as Birth of a Nation, Enoch Arden, The
Crowd, Why Change Your Wife? and The Jazz Singer, Mark Garrett Cooper
uncovers an intimate connection between Hollywood romances of the silent era
and the empowerment of a managerial class.