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Zusatztext "Clever! erudite! illuminating! and maddening." Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Auerbach is Professor of English at the University of Maryland! College Park and is the author of Male Call: Becoming Jack London (1996) and The Romance of Failure: First-Person Fictions of Poe! Hawthorne! and James (1989). Klappentext “ Body Shots is a provocative and compelling account of the centrality of corporeal movement and stillness to early cinema. Auerbach puts theory and history into productive conversation, significantly extending our knowledge of the contexts and strategies of cinema in its early years. It is an original and important book.”—Lee Grieveson, author of Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early Twentieth-Century-America "With his intense focus on the human body (the body running, the body kissing, the body posing, the body at rest), Jonathan Auerbach has managed to re-dramatize the newness of a new medium in its original decade. The combination of analytical patience, historical precision, and conceptual panache will startle readers into seeing even well-known early American films as though for the first time. In other words: Body Shots will prove to be a shot indeed."—Bill Brown, author of A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature Zusammenfassung Argues that it was the human form in motion that most profoundly shaped early cinema. Situating his discussion in a political and historical context, the author begins his analysis with films that reveal striking anxieties and preoccupations about persons on public display. It also considers twentieth-century American incarnation of cinema itself. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Body! Movement! Space PART I. BODIES IN PUBLIC 1. Looking In: McKinley at Home 2. Looking Out: Visualizing Self-Consciousness Interlude. The Vocal Gesture: Sounding the Origins of Cinema PART II. BODIES IN SPACE 3. Chasing Film Narrative 4. Windows 1900; or! Life of an American Fireman Conclusion: The Stilled Body Notes Bibliography Index ...
