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Cinema Before the World : The Global Routes of the Lumière Brothers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allan, Michael.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lumière, Auguste, 1862-1954.
- Lumière, Louis, 1864-1948.
- Promio, Alexandre, 1868-1926.
- Motion pictures--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Middle East.
- Local Subjects:
- Lumière, Auguste, 1862-1954.
- Lumière, Louis, 1864-1948.
- Promio, Alexandre, 1868-1926.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Tells the global story of the cinematograph while modeling a film scholarship committed to transnational analysis across languages, regions, and media.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction. Microhistory: Envisioning Ellipsis
- 1. World: The Labor of Representation
- 2. Location: Locating Looks in World Cinema
- 3. Frames: De-Centering Orientalist Optics
- 4. Sovereignty: Iterations of Cinematic Statecraft
- 5. History: The Duration of Myth
- 6. Tracks: Tracking the World in/as Cinema
- 7. Scale: The World as Close-Up
- Epilogue. Planet: Otherworldly Futures
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-5315-1406-5
- OCLC:
- 1574120131
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