This book brings together two major strands of research: the exploration of early film criticism and theory and cinema's impact on literary texts, including the work of H.G.Wells and Virginia Woolf. It offers new research on early writings about film, including those by women film critics, and on film societies and film journals in the period. INDICE: List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1: The Things that Move: Early Film and Literature; 2: The Shadow on the Screen: Virginia Woolf and the Cinema; 3: 'A new form of true beauty': Aesthetics and Early Film Criticism; 4: 'The cinema mind': Film Criticism and Film Culture in 1920s Britain; 5: The Moment of Close Up; Coda: The Coming of Sound
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959030-8
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 584
- Fecha Publicación: 12/08/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés