A Companion to Early Cinema

Herausgegeben von Gaudreault, André; Dulac, Nicolas; Hidalgo, Santiago

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Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to Early Cinema is an authoritative reference on the subfield of early cinema. An international group of expert scholars interrogate major concerns in early cinema studies, such as exhibition, promotion, industry, pre-cinema, and film criticism, and take an ambitious look at ideas and themes that take the subject into the future.

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An authoritative and much-needed overview of the main issues in the field of early cinema from over 30 leading international scholars in the field

First collection of its kind to offer in one reference: original theory, new research, and reviews of existing studies in the field
Features over 30 original essays from some of the leading scholars in early cinema and Film Studies, including Tom Gunning, Jane Gaines, Richard Abel, Thomas Elsaesser, and André Gaudreault
Caters to renewed interest in film studies' historical methods, with strict analysis of multiple and competing sources, providing a critical re-contextualization of films, printed material and technologies
Covers a range of topics in early cinema, such as exhibition, promotion, industry, pre-cinema, and film criticism
Broaches the latest research on the subject of archival practices, important particularly in the current digital context

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1393g
• ISBN-13: 9781444332315
• ISBN-10: 1444332317
• Artikelnr.: 34761309

Autorenporträt

André Gaudreault is Professor in Film Studies at the Université de Montréal, where he heads the research group GRAFICS (Groupe de recherche sur l'avènement et la formation des institutions cinématographique et scénique). He is also director of the bilingual journal Cinémas, published in Montreal. He has presented numerous scholarly papers and published extensively on film narration and early cinema. Nicolas Dulac is Lecturer in Film Studies at the Université de Montréal. He has published on early cinema and turn-of-the-century popular culture in journals such as 1895 Revue d'Histoire du Cinéma, Cinema & Cie, and Early Popular Visual Culture. Santiago Hidalgo is Lecturer in Film Studies at the Université de Montréal. He has published on early cinema, film criticism, and film historiography in Cinémas and in conference proceedings for events in Udine, Italy and Cerisy, France.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction 1
Nicolas Dulac, André 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
André Gaudreault
2 Toward a History of Peep Practice 32
Erkki Huhtamo
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
Tom Gunning
4 The Féerie between Stage and Screen 64
Frank Kessler
5 The Théâtrophone, an Anachronistic Hybrid Experiment or One of the First
Immobile Traveler Devices? 80
Giusy Pisano
6 The "Silent" Arts: Modern Pantomime and the Making of an Art Cinema in
Belle Époque Paris: The Case of Georges Wague and Germaine Dulac 99
Tami Williams
Part II Early Cinema Discourses 119
7 First Discourses on Film and the Construction of a "Cinematic Episteme"
121
François Albera
8 The Discourses of Art in Early Film, or, Why Not Rancière? 141
Rob King
9 Sensationalism and Early Cinema 163
Annemone Ligensa
10 From Craft to Industry: Series and Serial Production Discourses and
Practices in France 183
Laurent Le Forestier
11 Early American Film Publications: Film Consciousness, Self Consciousness
202
Santiago Hidalgo
12 Early Cinema and Film Theory 224
Roger Odin
Part III Early Cinema Forms 243
13 A Bunch of Violets 245
Ben Brewster
14 Modernity Stops at Nothing: The American Chase Film and the Specter of
Lynching 257
Jan Olsson
15 "The Knowledge Which Comes in Pictures": Educational Films and Early
Cinema Audiences 277
Jennifer Peterson
16 Motion Picture Color and Pathé-Frères: The Aesthetic Consequences of
Industrialization 298
Charles O ' Brien
Part IV Early Cinema Presentations 315
17 The European Fairground Cinema: (Re)defining and (Re)contextualizing the
"Cinema of Attractions" 317
Joseph Garncarz
18 Early Film Programs: An Overture, Five Acts, and an Interlude 334
Richard Abel
19 "Half Real-Half Reel": Alternation Format Stage-and-Screen Hybrids 360
Gwendolyn Waltz
20 Advance Newspaper Publicity for the Vitascope and the Mass Address of
Cinema 's Reading Public 381
Paul S. Moore
21 Storefront Theater Advertising and the Evolution of the American Film
Poster 398
Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley
22 Bound by Cinematic Chains: Film and Prisons during the Early Era 420
Alison Griffiths
Part V Early Cinema Identities 441
23 Anonymity: Uncredited and Unknown in Early Cinema 443
Jane M. Gaines
24 The Invention of Cinematic Celebrity in the United Kingdom 460
Andrew Shail
25 The Film Lecturer 487
Germain Lacasse
26 Richard Hoffman: A Collector's Archive 498
Richard Koszarski
Part VI Early Cinema Recollections 525
27 Early Films in the Age of Content; or, "Cinema of Attractions" Pursued
by Digital Means 527
Paolo Cherchi Usai
28 Multiple Originals: The (Digital) Restoration and Exhibition of Early
Films 550
Giovanna Fossati
29 Pointing Forward, Looking Back: Reflexivity and Deixis in Early Cinema
and Contemporary Installations 568
Nanna Verhoeff
30 Is Nothing New? Turn-of-the-Century Epistemes in Film History 587
Thomas Elsaesser
Index 610