New Perspectives on Early Cinema History : Concepts, Approaches, Audiences /: Concepts, Approaches, Audiences. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mario Slugan, Daniël Biltereyst.
• Editors: Slugan, Mario; Biltereyst, Daniël
• Contents: List of figuresList of contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: New perspectives on early cinema - Mario Slugan and Daniël BiltereystPART ONE: CONCEPTS AND THEORIES1. Animated pictures according to Georges Méliès: A sober and unpretentious remediation, or when Méliès took a stand against … the cinema! - André Gaudreault2. Attraction/narration/illustration: A third paradigm for early cinema - Valentine Robert3. 'The very act itself, even to the smack': Early cinema, presence and experience - Gert Jan Harkema4. Lost love on a hot summer day: The absorptive experience of the first film show in Denmark - Casper TybjergPART TWO: APPROACHES, METHODS AND SOURCES5. Revisiting the fiction/non-fiction distinction: Early cinema and the philosophy of imagination - Mario Slugan6. Using Mediathread for gesture analysis in the cinema of attractions - Danae Kleida7. Librettos as source material for film history: The case of early Russian cinema - Anna KovalovaPART THREE AUDIENCES AND EXPERIENCES8. Narrative cinema as a separate attraction: Archie L. Shepard's newspaper publicity - Paul S. Moore9. Mapping Black moviegoing in Harlem, New York City, 1909–14 - Agata Frymus10. Attraction, narration, performance: A historical-pragmatic perspective on early cinema - Frank Kessler and Sabine Lenk11. The other panicking audience: A New Cinema History approach to early cinemagoing, cinema fires, disasters and panics - Daniël BiltereystBibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (304 pages)
• Subjects: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Social & cultural history; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism; Philosophy -- Aesthetics; Film theory & criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350181991; 1350181994
• Related ISBNs: 9781350181977
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