Making movies into art : picture craft from the magic lantern to early Hollywood /: picture craft from the magic lantern to early Hollywood. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kaveh Askari.
• Authors: Askari, Kaveh
• Other Names: British Film Institute.
• Contents: Acknowledgments; Introduction; Rewinding art cinema; Situating cinema among the other arts; Craft, picture, . movement; Aesthetic appreciation and the modernity of picture craft; Chapter organisation; 1 Moving-picture Art before Cinema: Alexander Black and the Lyceum; The amateur and the institute; The detective lectures and the instantaneous tableau; From 'the horse in motion' to 'man in motion'; Picture play aesthetics: still pictures as moving pictures; Picture play reception: art cinema without the cinematograph; Conclusion: a history without an invention; 2 Moving Pictures Imagine the Artist's Studio; The mise en scène of the studio; The moving image jumps the frame; Trilbyana: Transformation and absorption; Lejaren à Hiller's Never-told Tales of a Studio; Triart Picture Company: From Trilbyana to art history; Conclusion: patchwork methods, . common goal; 3 Cinema Composition: The University and the Industry; Picture study: from the art lecture to the film lecture; Movement, contemplation and the 'tableau'; Managing tableaux: the economics of film spectatorship; Beyond the tableau: inscribing movement; Conclusion: moving pictures and new tendencies; 4 Painting with Human Beings: Maurice Tourneur as Art-film Director; In the atelier of Puvis; Quality films, imported film-makers; The Blue Bird: From The Yellow Book to the yellow press; Conclusion: Tourneur after 1920; 5 Rex Ingram's Art School Cinema; The oldest art school and the newest art; From exceptional style to cross-media appreciation; Scaramouche, or convergence; Conclusion: the limits of exceptional films; Conclusion: Moving Forward from the Slow Movie; Notes; Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave on behalf of the British Film Institute
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 791.430973; Motion pictures -- United States -- History; Art and motion pictures; Film theory & criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781844576982; 1844576981
• Related ISBNs: 9781844576968; 9781844576951
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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