Abstract
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL CLASS AND THE SILENT CINEMA IN the United States has been a perennial issue in film scholarship. Stephen J. Ross's Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America is the latest contribution to the subject and its most systematic study to date. As a labor historian, Ross brings a subtle grasp of the history of class relations in the United States to the topic. Using archival sources that cinema historians have largely ignored, such as labor newspapers and the proceedings and papers from working-class organizations, Ross has rediscovered a group of radical filmmakers from the silent era. Unfortunately, in placing their stories into context, he sometimes overstates the extent to which the motionpicture industry before World War I helped to foster an oppositional
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