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Klappentext 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. Andre Gaudreault argues that Edison and the Lumieres 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-siecle 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 Melies' rich oeuvre and includes a new! unabridged translation of Melies' famous 1907 text "Kinematographic Views." A foreword by Rick Altman stresses the relevance of Gaudreault's concerns to Anglophone film scholarship. Zusammenfassung An important reexamination of early film history! translated from the French for the first time Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Rick Altman ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Looking at Early Cinema in a New Light 9 2. The Emergence of the Kinematograph 32 3. Attraction and the Kinematograph 48 4. Intermediality and the Kinematograph 62 5. A Problematic Institutional Space 83 Conclusion 98 Appendix A: Discussion between 109 the Author and the Editors of the Journal 1895 Appendix B: "Kinematographic Views" 133 (1907) by Georges Melies! edited with an introduction and annotations by Jacques Malthete Notes 153 Works Cited in the Present Volume 177 General Bibliography on Early Cinema 185 Index 203
