A companion to early cinema / edited by André Gaudreault, Nicolas Dulac and Santiago Hidalgo ; assisted by Pierre Chemartin ; editorial board François Albera ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gaudreault, André.

Dulac, Nicolas.

Hidalgo, Santiago.

Chemartin, Pierre.

Albera, François.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--History.

Motion pictures.

Silent films--History and criticism.

Silent films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (647 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 fieldFeatures 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 GaudreaultCaters to renewed interest in film studies' historical methods, with strict analysis of multiple and com

Contents:

Introduction / Nicolas Dulac, André Gaudreault, Santiago Hidalgo

Early Cinema Cultures. The Culture Broth and the Froth of Cultures of So-called Early Cinema / André Gaudreault

Toward A History Of Peep Practice / Erkki Huhtamo

"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

The Féerie between Stage and Screen / Frank Kessler

The Théâtrophone, an Anachronistic Hybrid Experiment or One of the First Immobile Traveler Devices? / Giusy Pisano

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

Early Cinema Discourses. First Discourses on Film and the Construction of a "Cinematic Episteme" / François Albera

The Discourses of Art in Early Film, or, Why not Rancière? / Rob King

Sensationalism and Early Cinema / Annemone Ligensa

From Craft to Industry: Series and Serial Production Discourses and Practices in France / Laurent Le Forestier

Awareness of Film, Language and Self in Early American Film Publications / Santiago Hidalgo

Early Cinema and Film Theory / Roger Odin

Early Cinema Forms. A Bunch of Violets / Ben Brewster

Modernity Stops at Nothing: The American Chase Film and the Specter of Lynching / Jan Olsson

"The Knowledge Which Comes in Pictures": Educational Films and Early Cinema Audiences / Jennifer Peterson

Motion Picture Color and Pathé-Frères: The Aesthetic Consequences of Industrialization / Charles O'Brien

Early Cinema Presentations. The European Fairground Cinema: (Re-)defining and (Re-)contextualizing the "Cinema of

Attractions" / Joseph Garncarz

Early Film Programs: an Overture, Five Acts, and an Interlude / Richard Abel

"Half Real-Half Reel": Alternation Format Stage-and-Screen Hybrids / Gwendolyn Waltz

Advance Newspaper Publicity for the Vitascope and the Mass Address of Cinema's Reading Public / Paul S. Moore

Storefront Theater Advertising and the Evolution of the American Film Poster / Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley

Bound by Cinematic Chains: Film and Prisons during the Early Era / Alison Griffiths

Early Cinema Identities. Anonymity: Uncredited and Unknown in Early Cinema / Jane M. Gaines

The Invention of Cinematic Celebrity in Britain /

Andrew shail

the film lecturer / Germain Lacasse

Richard Hoffman: A Collector's Archive / Richard Koszarski

Early Cinema Recollections. Early Films in the Age of Content; or, "Cinema of Attractions" Pursued by Digital Means / Paolo Cherchi Usai

Multiple Originals: The (Digital) Restoration and Exhibition of Early Films / Giovanna Fossati

Pointing Forward, Looking Back: Reflexivity and Deixis in Early Cinema and Contemporary Installations / Nanna Verhoeff

Is Nothing New? Turn of the Century Epistemes in Film History / Thomas Elsaesser.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-118-29387-8

1-118-27448-2

1-280-58656-7

9786613616395

1-118-27446-6

1-118-27445-8

1-118-27447-4

OCLC:

804860743