Kaveh Askari

Making Movies Into Art

Picture Craft from the Magic Lantern to Early Hollywood

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on early cinema's relationship with the pictorial arts, this pioneering study explores how cinema's emergence was grounded in theories of picture composition, craft and arts education - from magic lantern experiments in 1890s New York through to early Hollywood feature films in the 1920s. Challenging received notions that the advent of cinema was a celebration of mechanisation and a radical rejection of nineteenth-century traditions of representation, Kaveh Askari instead emphasises the overlap between craft traditions and modernity in early film. Opening up valuable new perspectives on the history of film as art, Askari links American silent cinema with the practice of teaching the public how to appreciate fine art; charts its entrance into arts education via art schools and university film courses; shows how concepts of artistic production entered films through a material interest in the studio; and examines the way in which Maurice Tourneur and Rex Ingram made early art films by shaping an image of the film director around the idea of the fine artist.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• 2014 edition
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781844576951
• ISBN-10: 1844576957
• Artikelnr.: 41217625

Autorenporträt

Kaveh Askari is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Western Washington University, USA. He is the author of numerous articles on early cinema.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- Rewinding art cinema.- Situating cinema
among the other arts.- Craft, picture, movement.- Aesthetic appreciation
and the modernity of picture craft.- Chapter organization.- 1
Moving-picture Art before Cinema: Alexander Black and the Lyceum The
amateur and the institute The detective lectures and the instantaneous
tableau From 'the horse in motion' to 'man in motion' Picture play
aesthetics: still pictures as moving pictures Picture play reception: art
cinema without the cinematograph Conclusion: a history without an
invention.- 2 Moving Pictures Imagine the Artist's Studio The mise en scène
of the studio The moving image jumps the frame Trilbyana: Transformation
and absorption Lejaren à Hiller's Never-told Tales of a Studio Triart
Picture Company: From Trilbyana to art history Conclusion: patchwork
methods, common goal.- 3 Cinema Composition: The University and the
Industry Picture study: from the art lecture to the film lecture Movement,
contemplation and the 'tableau' Managing tableaux: the economics of film
spectatorship Beyond the tableau: inscribing movement Conclusion: moving
pictures and new tendencies.- 4 Painting with Human Beings: Maurice
Tourneur as Art-film Director In the atelier of Puvis Quality films,
imported film-makers The Blue Bird: From The Yellow Book to the yellow
press Conclusion: Tourneur after 1920.- 5 Rex Ingram's Art School Cinema
The oldest art school and the newest art From exceptional style to
cross-media appreciation Scaramouche, or convergence Conclusion: the limits
of exceptional films Conclusion: Moving Forward from the Slow Movie.-
Notes.- Index.