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Companion to Early Cinema

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Informationen zum Autor André Gaudreault is Professor in Film Studies at the Université de Montréal, where he heads the research group GRAFICS (Groupe de recherche sur l'avènement et la formation des institutions cinématographique et scénique). He is also director of the bilingual journal Cinémas , published in Montreal. He has presented numerous scholarly papers and published extensively on film narration and early cinema. Nicolas Dulac is Lecturer in Film Studies at the Université de Montréal. He has published on early cinema and turn-of-the-century popular culture in journals such as 1895 Revue d'Histoire du Cinéma, Cinema & Cie , and Early Popular Visual Culture . Santiago Hidalgo is Lecturer in Film Studies at the Université de Montréal. He has published on early cinema, film criticism, and film historiography in Cinémas and in conference proceedings for events in Udine, Italy and Cerisy, France. Klappentext An authoritative and much-needed overview of the main issues in the field of early cinema from over 30 leading international scholars in the field* First collection of its kind to offer in one reference: original theory, new research, and reviews of existing studies in the field* Features over 30 original essays from some of the leading scholars in early cinema and Film Studies, including Tom Gunning, Jane Gaines, Richard Abel, Thomas Elsaesser, and André Gaudreault* Caters to renewed interest in film studies' historical methods, with strict analysis of multiple and competing sources, providing a critical re-contextualization of films, printed material and technologies* Covers a range of topics in early cinema, such as exhibition, promotion, industry, pre-cinema, and film criticism* Broaches the latest research on the subject of archival practices, important particularly in the current digital context Zusammenfassung A Companion to Early Cinema is an authoritative reference on the subfield of early cinema. An international group of expert scholars interrogate major concerns in early cinema studies, such as exhibition, promotion, industry, pre-cinema, and film criticism, and take an ambitious look at ideas and themes that take the subject into the future. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors viii Acknowledgments xiv Introduction 1 Nicolas Dulac, André Gaudreault, and Santiago Hidalgo Part I Early Cinema Cultures 13 1 The Culture Broth and the Froth of Cultures of So-called Early Cinema 15 André Gaudreault 2 Toward a History of Peep Practice 32 Erkki Huhtamo 3 "We are Here and Not Here": Late Nineteenth-Century Stage Magic and the Roots of Cinema in the Appearance (and Disappearance) of the Virtual Image 52 Tom Gunning 4 The Féerie between Stage and Screen 64 Frank Kessler 5 The Théâtrophone, an Anachronistic Hybrid Experiment or One of the First Immobile Traveler Devices? 80 Giusy Pisano 6 The "Silent" Arts: Modern Pantomime and the Making of an Art Cinema in Belle Époque Paris: The Case of Georges Wague and Germaine Dulac 99 Tami Williams Part II Early Cinema Discourses 119 7 First Discourses on Film and the Construction of a "Cinematic Episteme" 121 François Albera 8 The Discourses of Art in Early Film, or, Why Not Rancière? 141 Rob King 9 Sensationalism and Early Cinema 163 Annemone Ligensa 10 From Craft to Industry: Series and Serial Production Discourses and Practices in France 183 Laurent Le Forestier 11 Early American Film Publications: Film Consciousness, Self Consciousness 202 Santiago Hidalgo 12 Early Cinema and Film Theory 224 Roger Odin Part III Early Cinema Forms 243 13 A Bunch of Violets 245 Ben Brewste...

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Authors Andre (University of Montreal Gaudreault
Assisted by Dulac Nicolas (Editor), André Gaudreault (Editor), Hidalgo Santiago (Editor)
Publisher Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.06.2012
 
EAN 9781444332315
ISBN 978-1-4443-3231-5
No. of pages 656
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)

Kulturwissenschaften, Cultural Studies, Filmtheater, Film Studies, Filmforschung, History of Cinema, Geschichte des Filmtheaters

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