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National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Machine: Movies

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The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Movies. As movies came to center the mass-culture universe, two major questions came to the fore: how did movies influence modern youth, and how would the introduction of sound affect the silent film industry? Here we consider pronouncements on these two questions from a sociologist and a Hollywood producer. Also included are samples of films and cartoons, silent and with sound.

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1920s, 1920s film, 1920s history, 1920s movies, history of film, history of movies, introduction of sound to movies, silent film, sound in film, 1920s america, national humanities center, postwar america, primary source, movies
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