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Film and Attraction: From Kinematography to Cinema
By (author) Andre Gaudreault, Translated by Timothy Barnard, Foreword by Rick Altman
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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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Publisher | University of Illinois Press
Published date | 5 May 2011
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 224
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 399g
ISBN | 978-0-2520-7805-7
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BISAC | performing arts / film & video / history & criticism
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