Silent Film and U.S. Naturalist Literature

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Progress without People -- 1 Unnatural Time: Frank Norris at the Cinema's Beginnings -- 2 Naturalist Historiography at the Moving Picture Show -- 3 Made of Leavings and Scraps -- 4 Systems, Not Men: Processes without People in Utopian Factory Films and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Eusocial Feminism -- Epilogue: Scaling up to Modernism -- Works Cited -- Index