Body Shots : Early Cinema's Incarnations / Jonathan Auerbach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auerbach, Jonathan, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Silent films--History and criticism.

Silent films.

Human body in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2007]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This original and compelling book places the body at the center of cinema's first decade of emergence and challenges the idea that for early audiences, the new medium's fascination rested on visual spectacle for its own sake. Instead, as Jonathan Auerbach argues, it was the human form in motion that most profoundly shaped early cinema. Situating his discussion in a political and historical context, Auerbach begins his analysis with films that reveal striking anxieties and preoccupations about persons on public display-both exceptional figures, such as 1896 presidential candidate William McKinley, and ordinary people caught by the movie camera in their daily routines. The result is a sharp, unique, and groundbreaking way to consider the turn-of-the-twentieth-century American incarnation of cinema itself.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Body, Movement, Space

1. Looking In: McKinley at Home

2. Looking Out:Visualizing Self-Consciousness

Interlude. The Vocal Gesture: Sounding the Origins of Cinema

3. Chasing Film Narrative

4. Windows 1900; or, Life of an American Fireman

Conclusion: The Stilled Body

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-193) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612772276

9781282772274

1282772279

9780520941199

0520941195

9781435611450

1435611454

OCLC:

476111542