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Informationen zum Autor Andrew Shail is Lecturer in Film at Newcastle University. Klappentext "Reading the Cinematograph" pairs eight short stories about the cinema--including works by such notables as Rudyard Kipling and Sax Rohmer--with eight new essays from leading film and literary scholars like Tom Gunning and Andrew Higson to reveal the influence that film and fiction had on one another in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story. This book studies the relationship between popular magazine short stories and the very early British films. Inhaltsverzeichnis Reading the Cinematograph: Introduction! Andrew Shail Story 1: Our Detective Story (24 January 1897) by Dagonet [George R. Sims] Chapter 1: George R. Sims and the Film as Evidence! Stephen Bottomore Story 2: The Awful Story of Heley Croft (20 May 1899) by A.S. Appelbee Chapter 2: Cinema Re-Mystified: A.S. Appelbee's Technological Ghost Story! David Trotter and Chris O'Rourke Story 3: Colonel Rankin's Advertisement (December 1901) by Raymond Rayne Chapter 3: The Great American Kinetograph: News! Fakery and the Boer War! Andrew Shail Story 4: Mrs Bathurst (September 1904) by Rudyard Kipling Chapter 4: "The Very Thing": Rudyard Kipling's 'Mrs Bathurst'! Tom Gunning Story 5: The Green Spider (October 1904) by A[rthur Henry] Sarsfield Ward! a.k.a. Sax Rohmer Chapter 5: 'Only from the Senses': Detection! Early Cinema and a Giant Green Spider! Stacy Gillis Story 6: Romantic Lucy (Summer 1911) by Alphonse Courlander Chapter 6: "She Had So Many Appearances": Alphonse Courlander and the Birth of the 'Moving Picture Girl! Jon Burrows Story 7: Love and the Bioscope: A Heart-Thrilling Story of a Deserted Bride (8 June 1912) by Mrs H.J. Bickle Chapter 7: Melodrama! Sensation and the Discourse of Modernity in 'Love and the Bioscope'! Lise Shapiro Sanders Story 8; The Sense of Touch (December 1912) by Ole Luk-Oie [Ernest Dunlop Swinton] Chapter 8: A visit to the cinema in 1912: 'The Sense of Touch'! Andrew Higson ...
