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

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 Introduction Nicolas Dulac, André Gaudreault, Santiago
Hidalgo I Early Cinema Cultures 1. The Culture Broth and the Froth of
Cultures of So-called Early Cinema André Gaudreault 2. Toward A History Of
Peep Practice 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 Tom Gunning 4. The Féerie between Stage
and Screen Frank Kessler 5. The Théâtrophone, an Anachronistic Hybrid
Experiment or One of the First Immobile Traveler Devices? 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 Tami
Williams II Early Cinema Discourses 7. First Discourses on Film and the
Construction of a "Cinematic Episteme" François Albera 8. The Discourses of
Art in Early Film, or, Why Not Rancière? Rob King 9. Sensationalism and
Early Cinema Annemone Ligensa 10. From Craft to Industry: Series and Serial
Production Discourses and Practices in France Laurent Le Forestier 11.
Awareness of Film, Language and Self in Early American Film Publications
Santiago Hidalgo 12. Early Cinema and Film Theory Roger Odin III Early
Cinema Forms 13. A Bunch of Violets Ben Brewster 14. Modernity Stops at
Nothing: The American Chase Film and the Specter of Lynching Jan Olsson 15.
"The Knowledge Which Comes in Pictures": Educational Films and Early Cinema
Audiences Jennifer Peterson 16. Motion Picture Color and Pathé-Frères: The
Aesthetic Consequences of Industrialization Charles O'Brien IV Early Cinema
Presentations 17. The European Fairground Cinema: (Re-)defining and
(Re-)contextualizing the "Cinema of Attractions" Joseph Garncarz 18. Early
Film Programs: an Overture, Five Acts, and an Interlude Richard Abel 19.
"Half Real-Half Reel": Alternation Format Stage-and-Screen Hybrids
Gwendolyn Waltz 20. Advance Newspaper Publicity for the Vitascope and the
Mass Address of Cinema's Reading Public Paul S. Moore 21. Storefront
Theater Advertising and the Evolution of the American Film Poster Kathryn
H. Fuller-Seeley 22. Bound by Cinematic Chains: Film and Prisons during the
Early Era Alison Griffiths V Early Cinema Identities 23. Anonymity:
Uncredited and Unknown in Early Cinema Jane M. Gaines 24. The Invention of
Cinematic Celebrity in Britain Andrew Shail 25. The Film Lecturer Germain
Lacasse 26. Richard Hoffman: A Collector's Archive Richard Koszarski VI
Early Cinema Recollections 27. Early Films in the Age of Content; or,
"Cinema of Attractions" Pursued by Digital Means Paolo Cherchi Usai 28.
Multiple Originals: The (Digital) Restoration and Exhibition of Early Films
Giovanna Fossati 29. Pointing Forward, Looking Back: Reflexivity and Deixis
in Early Cinema and Contemporary Installations Nanna Verhoeff 30. Is
Nothing New? Turn of the Century Epistemes in Film History Thomas Elsaesser
Index