New Perspectives on Early Cinema History (eBook, PDF)

Concepts, Approaches, Audiences
Redaktion: Slugan, Mario; Biltereyst, Daniël

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, editors Mario Slugan and Daniël Biltereyst present a theoretical reconceptualization of early cinema. To do so, they highlight the latest methods and tools for analysis, and cast new light on the experience of early cinema through the application of these concepts and methods.

The international host of contributors evaluate examples of early cinema across the globe, including The May Irwin Kiss (1896), Un homme de têtes (1900), The Terrible Turkish Executioner (1904) and Tom Tom the Piper's Son (1905). In doing so, they address the periodization of the era, emphasizing the recent boon in the availability of primary materials, the rise of digital technologies, the developments in new cinema history, and the persistence of some conceptualizations as key incentives for rethinking early cinema in theoretical and methodological terms.

They go on to highlight cutting-edge approaches to the study of early cinema, including the use of the Mediathread Platform, the formation of new datasets with the help of digital technologies, and exploring the early era in non-western cultures. Finally, the contributors revisit early cinema audiences and exhibition contexts by investigating some of the earliest screenings in Denmark and the US, exploring the details of black cinema going in Harlem, and examining exhibition practices in Germany.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350181984
• Artikelnr.: 63646921

Autorenporträt

Mario Slugan is Lecturer in Film Studies, Queen Mary University of London, UK. He is the author of Montage as Perceptual Experience (2017), Noël Carroll on Film (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Fiction and Imagination in Early Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2019). He is also the editor of the open-access peer-reviewed academic journal Apparatus: Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe and book review editor for Early Popular Visual Culture. Daniël Biltereyst is Professor in Film and Media Studies at Ghent University, Belgium. He is editor of Mapping Movie Magazines (2020) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to New Cinema Audiences (2019), Moralizing Cinema (2015), Silencing Cinema (2013), Cinema, Audiences and Modernity (2012) and Explorations in New Cinema History (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: New
perspectives on early cinema - Mario Slugan and Daniël Biltereyst PART ONE:
CONCEPTS AND THEORIES 1. Animated pictures according to Georges Méliès: A
sober and unpretentious remediation, or when Méliès took a stand against .
the cinema! - André Gaudreault 2. Attraction/narration/illustration: A
third paradigm for early cinema - Valentine Robert 3. 'The very act itself,
even to the smack': Early cinema, presence and experience - Gert Jan
Harkema 4. Lost love on a hot summer day: The absorptive experience of the
first film show in Denmark - Casper Tybjerg PART TWO: APPROACHES, METHODS
AND SOURCES 5. Revisiting the fiction/non-fiction distinction: Early cinema
and the philosophy of imagination - Mario Slugan 6. Using Mediathread for
gesture analysis in the cinema of attractions - Danae Kleida 7. Librettos
as source material for film history: The case of early Russian cinema -
Anna Kovalova PART THREE AUDIENCES AND EXPERIENCES 8. Narrative cinema as a
separate attraction: Archie L. Shepard's newspaper publicity - Paul S.
Moore 9. Mapping Black moviegoing in Harlem, New York City, 1909-14 -
Agata Frymus 10. Attraction, narration, performance: A historical-pragmatic
perspective on early cinema - Frank Kessler and Sabine Lenk 11. The other
panicking audience: A New Cinema History approach to early cinemagoing,
cinema fires, disasters and panics - Daniël Biltereyst Bibliography Index