Making movies into art : picture craft from the magic lantern to early Hollywood /: picture craft from the magic lantern to early Hollywood. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kaveh Askari.
• Authors: Askari, Kaveh
• Contents: Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- Rewinding art cinema.- Situating cinema among the other arts.- Craft, picture, movement.- Aesthetic appreciation and the modernity of picture craft.- Chapter organization.- 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 : British Film Institute
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (182 pages)
• Subjects: 791.430973; Motion pictures -- United States -- History; Art and motion pictures
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781838717032
• Related ISBNs: 183871703X; 9781844576968
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