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Film and Attraction: From Kinematography to Cinema

Autor Andre Gaudreault Traducere de Timothy Barnard Cuvânt înainte de Rick Altman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 mai 2011
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. André Gaudreault argues that Edison and the Lumières 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-siècle 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 Méliès' rich oeuvre and includes a new, unabridged translation of Méliès' famous 1907 text "Kinematographic Views." A foreword by Rick Altman stresses the relevance of Gaudreault's concerns to Anglophone film scholarship.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780252035838
ISBN-10: 0252035836
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 23 black and white photographs
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: University of Illinois Press
Colecția University of Illinois Press

Recenzii

Author received the Jean Mitry Prize given by the Giornate del Cinema Muto, honoring individuals who contribute to the advancement of history and recognition of silent cinema, 2010.

"This work could indeed help rewrite the history of 'early cinema.'  Highly recommended."--Choice
 

"A tour de force. The many historical references to specific uses of cinematic terms that are summoned by the author is impressive and can be accomplished only by a scholar with long and substantial experience working in the field. Books on film historiography as insightful, substantial, and concise as this one are rare."--Charles O'Brien, author of Cinema's Conversion to Sound: Technology and Film Style in France and the U.S.

"Thoughtful and provocative."--Philip French, Times Literary Supplement

Notă biografică

André Gaudreault is a professor at the Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques at the Université de Montréal, the author of From Plato to Lumière: Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema, and the editor of American Cinema 1890–1909: Themes and Variations.Timothy Barnard is a film historian, publisher, and translator.

Cuprins

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 the Author and the Editors of the Journal 1895   109
Appendix B: "Kinematographic Views" (1907) by Georges Melies, edited with an introduction and annotations by Jacques Malthete   133
Notes   153
Works Cited in the Present Volume   177
General Bibliography on Early Cinema   185
Index   203