A Companion to Early Cinema

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Title

A Companion to Early Cinema

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Country

국외

Production Date

2012-**-**

Language

영어

Size (mm)

180 x 253

Pages

631쪽

ISBN/ISSN

9781444332315

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Producer

Andre Gaudreault, Nicolas Dulac (저자), Wiley-Blackwell (발행처)

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Contents

Contents

List of Contributors = viii Acknowledgments = xiv Introduction = 1 Nicolas Dulac, Andre Gaudreault, and Santiago Hidalgo Part I. Early Cinema Cultures = 13 1. The Culture Broth and the Froth of Cultures of So-called Early Cinema = 15 2. Toward a History of Peep Practice = 32 3. "We are Here and Not Here": Late Nineteenth-Century Stage Magic and the Roots of Cinema in the Appearance (and Disappearance) of the Virtual Image = 52 4. The Ferie between Stage and Screen = 64 5. The Theatrophone, an Anachronistic Hybrid Experiment or One of the First Immobile Traveler Devices? = 80 6. The "Silent" Arts: Modern Pantomime and the Making of an Art Cinema in Belle Epoque Paris: The Case of Georges Wague and Germaine Dulac = 99 Part II Early Cinema Discourses = 119 7. First Discourses on Film and the Construction of a "Cinematic Episteme" = 121 8. The Discourses of Art in Early Film, or, Why Not Ranciere? = 141 9. Sensationalism and Early Cinema = 163 10. From Craft to Industry: Series and Serial Production Discourses and Practices in France = 183 11. Early American Film Publications: Film Consciousness, Self Consciousness = 202 12. Early Cinema and Film Theory = 224 Part III Early Cinema Forms = 243 13. A Bunch of Violets = 245 14. Modernity Stops at Nothing: The American Chase Film and the Specter of Lynching = 257 15. "The Knowledge Which Comes in Pictures": Educational Films and Early Cinema Audiences = 277 16. Motion Picture Color and Pathe-Freres: The Aesthetic Consequences of Industrialization = 298 Part IV Early Cinema Presentations = 315 17. The European Fairground Cinema: (Re)defining and (Re)contextualizing the "Cinema of Attractions" = 317 18. Early Film Programs: An Overture, Five Acts, and an Interlude = 334 19. "Half Real-Half Reel": Alternation Format Stage-and-Screen Hybrids = 360 20. Advance Newspaper Publicity for the Vitascope and the Mass Address of Cinema's Reading Public = 381 21. Storefront Theater Advertising and the Evolution of the American Film Poster = 398 22. Bound by Cinematic Chains: Film and Prisons during the Early Era = 420 Part V Early Cinema Identities = 441 23. Anonymity: Uncredited and Unknown in Early Cinema = 443 24. The Invention of Cinematic Celebrity in the United Kingdom = 460 25. The Film Lecturer = 487 26. Richard Hoffman: A Collector's Archive = 498 Part VI Early Cinema Recollections = 525 27. Early Films in the Age of Content; or, "Cinema of Attractions" Pursued by Digital Means = 527 28. Multiple Originals: The (Digital) Restoration and Exhibition of Early Films = 550 29. Pointing Forward, Looking Back: Reflexivity and Deixis in Early Cinema and Contemporary Installations = 568 30. Is Nothing New? Turn-of-the-Century Epistemes in Film History = 587 Index = 610

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