“Adding to the Pictures”: The American Film Prologue in the 1920s

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Research Article| April 01 2019 “Adding to the Pictures”: The American Film Prologue in the 1920s Mary Simonson Mary Simonson Mary Simonson is an associate professor of film and media studies and women’s studies at Colgate University. She completed her doctorate in critical and comparative studies in music at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on performance across media in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and has appeared in a number of journals, including the Journal of the American Musicological Society and the Journal of the Society for American Music. Her first book, Body Knowledge: Performance, Intermediality, and American Entertainment, 1907-1917 (Oxford University Press, 2013) explores the interplay of the live and the mediatized in turn-of-the-century American musical, dance, and film culture. Her current book project focuses on silent film presentation and the musical experiences of American filmgoers in the 1920s. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2019) 37 (1): 1–28. https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.37.1.0001 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Simonson; “Adding to the Pictures”: The American Film Prologue in the 1920s. American Music 1 January 2019; 37 (1): 1–28. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.37.1.0001 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressAmerican Music Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2019 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2019 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.