An authoritative and much-needed overview of the main issues in the field of early cinema from over 30 leading international scholars in the fieldFirst collection of its kind to offer in one reference: original theory, new research, and reviews of existing studies in the fieldFeatures 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 GaudreaultCaters 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 technologiesCovers a range oftopics in early cinema, such as exhibition, promotion, industry, pre-cinema, and film criticismBroaches the latest research on the subject of archival practices, important particularly in the current digital context INDICE: List of contributorsIntroductionNicolas Dulac, André Gaudreault, Santiago HidalgoIEarly Cinema Cultures1.The Culture Broth and the Froth of Cultures of So-called Early CinemaAndré Gaudreault2.Toward A HistoryOf Peep PracticeErkki Huhtamo3.“We are Here and Not Here”: Late Nineteenth Century Stage Magic and the Roots of Cinema in the Appearance (and Disappearance) of the Virtual ImageTom Gunning4.The Féerie between Stageand ScreenFrank Kessler5. The Théâtrophone, an Anachronistic Hybrid Experiment or One of the First Immobile Traveler Devices? Giusy Pisano6.The “Silent” Arts: Modern Pantomime and the Making of an Art Cinema in Belle Époque Paris. The Case of Georges Wague and Germaine DulacTamiWilliamsIIEarly Cinema Discourses7.First Discourses on Film and the Construction of a “Cinematic Episteme”François Albera8.The Discourses of Art in Early Film, or, Why Not Rancière?Rob King9.Sensationalism and Early CinemaAnnemone Ligensa10.From Craft to Industry: Series and Serial Production Discourses and Practices in FranceLaurent Le Forestier11.Awareness ofFilm, Language and Self in Early American Film PublicationsSantiago Hidalgo12.Early Cinema and Film TheoryRoger OdinIIIEarly Cinema Forms13.A Bunch of VioletsBen Brewster14.Modernity Stops at Nothing: The American Chase Film and the Specter of LynchingJan Olsson15.“The Knowledge Which Comes in Pictures”: Educational Films and Early Cinema AudiencesJennifer Peterson16.Motion Picture Color and Pathé-Frères: The Aesthetic Consequences of Industrialization Charles O’BrienIVEarly Cinema Presentations17.The European Fairground Cinema: (Re-)defining and (Re-)contextualizing the “Cinemaof Attractions”Joseph Garncarz18.Early Film Programs: an Overture, FiveActs, and an InterludeRichard Abel19.“Half Real-Half Reel”: Alternation Format Stage-and-Screen HybridsGwendolyn Waltz20.Advance Newspaper Publicity for the Vitascope and the Mass Address of Cinema’s Reading PublicPaul S. Moore21.Storefront Theater Advertising and the Evolution of the American Film PosterKathryn H. Fuller-Seeley22.Bound by Cinematic Chains: Film and Prisons during the Early EraAlison GriffithsVEarly Cinema Identities23.Anonymity: Uncredited and Unknown in Early CinemaJane M. Gaines24.The Invention of Cinematic Celebrity in BritainAndrew Shail25.The Film LecturerGermain Lacasse26.Richard Hoffman: A Collector’s ArchiveRichard KoszarskiVIEarly Cinema Recollections27.Early Films in the Age of Content; or, “Cinema of Attractions” Pursued by Digital MeansPaolo Cherchi Usai28.Multiple Originals: The (Digital) Restoration and Exhibition of Early FilmsGiovanna Fossati29.PointingForward, Looking Back: Reflexivity and Deixis in Early Cinema and Contemporary InstallationsNanna Verhoeff30.Is Nothing New? Turn of the Century Epistemes in Film HistoryThomas ElsaesserIndex
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-3231-5
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 640
- Fecha Publicación: 25/05/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés