Early cinema : space, frame, narrative /: space, frame, narrative. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Thomas Elsaesser with Adam Barker.
• Other Names: Elsaesser, Thomas, 1943-2019; Barker, Adam
• Contents: General introduction : Early cinema : from linear history to mass media archaeology -- [Part] I : Early film form : articulations of space and time -- Film form 1900-1906 / Barry Salt -- Deep staging in French films 1900-1914 / Ben Brewster -- The cinema of attractions : early films, its spectator and the avant-garde / Tom Gunning -- Let there be Lumière / Dai Vaughan -- Film, narrative, narration : the cinema of the Lumière Brothers / André Gaudreault -- From Lumière to Pathé : the break-up of perspectival space / Richard deCordova -- Non-continuity, continuity, discontinuity : a theory of genres in early films ; 'Primitive' cinema : a frame-up? or, the trick's on us / Tom Gunning -- Shots in the dark : the real origins of film editing / Stephen Bottomore -- The infringement of copyright laws and its effects (1900-1906) / André Gaudreault -- The travel genre in 1903-1904 : moving towards fictional narrative / Charles Musser -- Detours in film narrative : the development of cross-cutting / André Gaudreault. [Part] II : The institution cinema : industry, commodity, audiences -- Economic conditions of early cinema / Michael Chanan -- Combination and litigation : structures of US film distribution, 1896-1917 / Janet Staiger -- In the beginning was the word : six pre-Griffith motion picture scenarios / Patrick G. Loughney -- A primitive mode of representation? / Noël Burch -- Early cinema : whose public sphere? / Miriam Hansen -- Some historical footnotes to the Kuleshov experiment / Yuri Tsivian -- The nickelodeon era begins : establishing the framework for Hollywood's mode of representation / Charles Musser -- Showing and telling : image and word in early cinema / André Gaudreault -- Silent films : what was the right speed? / Kevin Brownlow. [Part] III : The continuity system : Griffith and beyond -- A scene at the "movies" / Ben Brewster -- "A properly adjusted window" : vision and sanity in D.W. Griffith's 1908-1909 Biograph films / Anne Friedberg -- Weaving a narrative : style and economic background in Griffith's Biograph films / Tom Gunning -- Griffith : the frame, the figure / Jacques Aumont -- To alternate/to narrate / Raymond Bellour -- Spatial and temporal articulation in pre-classical Swedish film / John Fullerton -- 'The student of Prague' : division and codification of space / Leon Hunt.
• Publisher Details: London : British Film Institute
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (416 pages)
• Subjects: 791.43/09; Silent films -- History and criticism; Motion pictures -- History; Motion picture industry -- History; Cinéma -- Histoire; Films muets -- Histoire et critique; Récit filmique; Motion picture industry; Motion pictures; Silent films; Filmwirtschaft; Stummfilm; Aufsatzsammlung; Filmkunst; Filmindustrie; Stummfilm; Aufsatzsammlung; Filmwirtschaft; Aufsatzsammlung; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781838715465; 1838715460
• Related ISBNs: 9780851702445
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