Cinema and Its Shadow - Race and Technology in Early Cinema

Klappentext Alice Maurice is associate professor of English at the University of Toronto. Her articles have appeared in journals including Camera Obscura! Moving Image! and Cinema Journal . Zusammenfassung The Cinema and Its Shadow argues that race has defined the cinematic apparatus since the earliest motion pictures! especially at times of technological transition. Discussing early "race subjects!" Alice Maurice demonstrates that these films influenced cinematic narrative in lasting ways by helping to determine the relation between stillness and motion! spectacle and narrative drive.

Product details

• Authors: Alice Maurice, MAURICE ALICE
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.02.2013
• EAN: 9780816678044
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-7804-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research