Film and Attraction: From Kinematography to Cinema - Brossura

Gaudreault, Andre

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ISBN 10: 0252078055 ISBN 13: 9780252078057

Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2011

Riassunto

 

Establishing a new vision for film history, Film and Attraction: From Kinematography to Cinema urges readers to consider the importance of complex social and cultural forces in early film. André Gaudreault argues that Edison and the Lumières did not invent cinema; they invented a device. Explaining how this device, the kinematograph, gave rise to cinema is the challenge he sets for himself in this volume. He highlights the forgotten role of the film lecturer and examines film's relationship with other visual spectacles in fin-de-siècle culture, from magic sketches to fairy plays and photography to vaudeville. In reorienting the study of film history, Film and Attraction offers a candid reassessment of Georges Méliès' rich oeuvre and includes a new, unabridged translation of Méliès' famous 1907 text "Kinematographic Views." A foreword by Rick Altman stresses the relevance of Gaudreault's concerns to Anglophone film scholarship.

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L'autore:

 

André Gaudreault is a professor at the Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques at the Université de Montréal, the author of From Plato to Lumière: Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema, and the editor of American Cinema 1890–1909: Themes and Variations. Timothy Barnard is a film historian, author, and translator.

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Book by Gaudreault Andre

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Illinois Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0252078055
• ISBN 13: 9780252078057
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 207