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City of cinema : Paris 1850-1907 / edited by Leah Lehmbeck, Britt Salvesen, and Vanessa R. Schwartz.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.F7 C58 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, French.
- Art and motion pictures.
- Motion picture industry.
- History.
- Motion pictures.
- Paris (France)--Social life and customs--19th century--Exhibitions.
- Paris (France).
- France.
- France--Paris.
- Motion pictures--France--Paris--History--19th century--Exhibitions.
- Motion picture industry--France--Paris--History--19th century--Exhibitions.
- Art and motion pictures--France--Exhibitions.
- Art, French--France--Paris--19th century--Exhibitions.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
- Distribution:
- New York, NY : ARTBOOK/D.A.P.
- Other Title:
- Enfin le cinéma, arts, images et spectacles en France 1833-1907.
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles, CA : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; [New York] : DelMonico Books : D.A.P., 2022.
- Summary:
- City of Cinema traces film's evolution from obscure entertainment to significant art form of the 20th century. Placing cinema in the context of 19th-century Parisian visual culture, this book brings together posters, paintings, studio and documentary photography, and film stills that evoke Paris as a site of consumption, demonstrate early cinema's relationship with technology and the fine arts, and highlight local and global spaces of film production. It also examines the aspects of 19th-century visual culture that gave rise to cinema as a modern medium with an eager audience. Aligning with French beliefs that the nation's culture would be democratized through consumption, cinema reinforced a set of assumptions about French cultural and political authority and disseminated these ideas to the rest of the world.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Michael Govan
- Paris projected / Leah Lehmbeck, Britt Salvesen, and Vanessa R. Schwartz
- Films / Aaron Rich
- La ville écran: Paris as screen city / Vanessa R. Schwartz
- Shaping the modern spectator: apparatus and audience from the diorama to the cinema / Britt Salvesen
- Fine art on film: painting, sculpture, and early French cinema / Leah Lehmbeck
- On the move: seeing the world in early transport films / Vanessa R. Schwartz
- Every world in one: Georges Méliès and the film studio / Brian R. Jacobson.
- Notes:
- Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Musée d'Orsay, Paris, September 28, 2021-January 16, 2022, with the title "Enfin le cinéma! Arts, images et spectacles en France (1833-1907)," and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 20-July 10, 2022, with the title "City of Cinema: Paris, 1850-1907."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-186).
- Filmography: pages 182-183.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1636810217
- 9781636810218
- OCLC:
- 1289987794
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