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Early Cinema and the "National" / edited by Richard Abel, Giorgio Bertellini and Rob King.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early Cinema in Review: Proceedings of Domitor
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nationalism in motion pictures--Congresses.
- Nationalism in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Political aspects--Congresses.
- Motion pictures.
- National characteristics in motion pictures--Congresses.
- National characteristics in motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (362 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hertfordshire, England : John Libbey Publishing, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Early Cinema and the "Nationaltakes stock of a formative moment in cinema history, tracing the beginnings of the process whereby nations learned to imagine themselves through moving images.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; PART I Interrogating the ""National""; Chapter 1 Early cinema as global cinema: the encyclopedic ambition; Chapter 2 Nationalizing attractions; Chapter 3 Images of the ""National"" in early non-fiction films 29; Chapter 4 National and racial landscapes and the photographic form; Chapter 5 Sound-on-disc cinema and electrification in pre-WWI Britain, France, Germany and the United States; Chapter 6 Mind-reading/mind-speaking: dialogue in The Birth of a Nation (1915) and the emergence of speech in American silent cinema
- Chapter 7 Living Canada: selling the nation through imagesChapter 8 Early cinema and ""the Polish question""; PART II Colonialism/Imperialism; Chapter 9 Our Navy and patriotic entertainment in Brighton at the start of the Boer War; Chapter 10 ""An England of our Dreams""?: early patriotic entertainments with film in Britain during the Anglo-Boer War; Chapter 11 ""The transport of audiences"": making cinema ""National""; Chapter 12 Enlisting early cinema in the service of ""la plus grande France""; Chapter 13 Teaching citizenship via celluloid; Chapter 14 Fights of Nations and national fights
- Chapter 15 Japan on American screens, 1908-1915PART III Locating/Relocating the ""National"" in Film Exhibition; Chapter 16 Nationalist film-going without Canadian-made films?; Chapter 17 The cinema arrives in Italy: city, region and nation in early film discourse; Chapter 18 Wondrous pictures in Istanbul: from cosmopolitanism to nationalism; Chapter 19 The emergence of nationally specific film cultures in Europe, 1911-1914; Chapter 20 The Norwegian municipal cinema system and the development of a national cinema; Chapter 21 Spanish lecturers and their relations with the national
- Chapter 22 Joseph Dumais and the language of French-Canadian silent cinemaChapter 23 Localizing serials: translating daily life in Les Mystères de New-York (1915); PART IV Genre and the 'National'; Chapter 24 Seeing the world while staying at home: slapstick, modernity and American-ness; Chapter 25 ""A purely American product"": tramp comedy and white working-class formation in the 1910s; Chapter 26 The ""Chinese"" conjurer: orientalist magic in variety theater and the trick film; Chapter 27 A note on the national character of early popular science films
- Chapter 28 European melodramas and World War I: narrated time and historical time as reflections of national identityChapter 29 ""Cow-punchers, bull-whackers and tin horn gamblers"": generic formulae, sensational literature, and early American cinema; Chapter 30 Early ethnographic film and the museum; PART V Gender and the 'National'; Chapter 31 Black hair, black eyes, black heart: Theda Bara and race suicide panic; Chapter 32 Who is the ""right"" star to adore?: nationality, masculinity and the female cinema audience in Germany during World War I
- PART VI Memory, Imagination, and the 'National'
- Notes:
- "... the ninth International Domitor Conference, held at the University of Michigan (30 May-2 June 2006)"--P. 2.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-86196-915-4
- OCLC:
- 966765315
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