Performing new media, 1890-1915 / edited by Kaveh Askari [and five others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Askari, Kaveh, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Silent films--History.

Silent films.

Motion pictures and theater--History.

Motion pictures and theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (602 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hertfordshire, England : John Libbey Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the years before the First World War, showmen, entrepreneurs, educators, and scientists used magic lanterns and cinematographs in many contexts and many venues. To employ these silent screen technologies to deliver diverse and complex programs usually demanded audio accompaniment, creating a performance of both sound and image. These shows might include live music, song, lectures, narration, and synchronized sound effects provided by any available party--projectionist, local talent, accompanist or backstage crew--and would often borrow techniques from shadow plays and tableaux vivants. The performances were not immune to the influence of social and cultural forces, such as censorship or reform movements. This collection of essays considers the ways in which different visual practices carried out at the turn of the 20th century shaped performances on and beside the screen.

Contents:

Performing on the screen : actors and personalities

Lois Weber at Rex : performing femininity across media / Shelley Stamp

Diva intermedial : Lyda Borelli between art, photography, theatre and cinema / Ivo Blom

Why sue "Little Mary?" : how Independent Moving Pictures Company of America v Gladys Smith and Owen Moore (1911) defined celebrity and professionalism for film actors / Leslie Midkiff DeBauche

Camera distance and acting in the Griffith Biography / Charles O'Brien

Performance times : the lightning cartoon and the emergence of animation / Malcolm Cook

La transparence du Fregoligraph en question / Frederic Tabet

In the flesh : personal appearances and the picture personality in Britain / Chris O'Rourke

Performers : now synchronised on screen / Ian Christie

Performing beside the screen : narrators, showmen, and musicians

Missing believed lost : the film narrator, then and now / Martin Loiperdinger

Standards of practice in transition : the showmanship of Jasper Redfern as it emerged / Peter Walsh

Showmanship skills and the changing role of the exhibitor in 1910's Scotland / María Antonia Velez-Serna

Showing film in winter (1904-1906) : Alberts Freres' film galas in Dutch multi-purpose buildings / Ansje van Beusekom

Performing new media and the creation of national identity : Kräusslich and Köpke in Norway before 1910 / Gunnar Iversen

Music programming and the formation of Swedish cinema culture / Christopher Natzen

"Marvelous and fascinating" : L. Frank Baum's Fairylogue and radio-plays (1908) / Artemis Willis

The multiple media lecture : Racing with death in Antarctic blizzards (1915) / Gregory A. Waller

Performing with the screen : audiences, educators and officials

Kinoreformbewegung revisited : performing the cinematograph as a pedagogical tool / Frank Kessler and Sabine Lenk

Health on display : the Panama-Pacific International Exposition as sanitary venue / Marina Dahlquist

Lyrical education : music and colour in early non-fiction film / Jennifer Peterson

"Offensive and riotous behaviour"? Performing the role of an audience in Irish cinema of the mid-1910's / Denis Condon

Tango mad and affected by cinematographitis : rhythmic "contagions" between screens and audiences in the 1910's / Kristina Köhler

Intermedial performance

Screening sensations and live performance : the creative blending of traditional and new projected media at the start of the twentieth century / Ludwig Maria Vogl-Bienek

Le spectacle de lanterne magique considere sous l'angle de la conference : quelques traces ecrites d'une performance orale / Alain Boillat

Getting to know the Dutch : magic lantern slides as traces of intermedial performance practices / Sarah Dellmann

20 minutes or less : short-form film-and-theatre hybrids : skits, sketches, playlets, and acts in vaudeville, variety, revues, &c. / Gwendolyn Waltz

Between Karagöz and cinema : connectivity, mobility, collectivity / Canan Balan

Entre nouveaute et continuite : le spectacle cinematographique serait-il une emergence des ombres françaises? / Thierry Lecointe

"Performed live and talking. No kinematograph" : amateur performances of Tableaux vivants and local film exhibition in Germany around 1900 / Daniel Wiegand

Performing painting : projected images as living pictures / Valentine Robert

Colour as performance in visual music, film tinting and digital painting / Joshua Yumibe

Coda

Early cinema today and its "digital performance" : the re-discovery of The soldier's courtship (1896) / Franziska Heller.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Includes indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 21, 2015).

ISBN:

9780861969104

0861969103

OCLC:

933516601