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Film and Attraction: From Kinematography to Cinema
Contributor(s): Gaudreault, Andre (Author), Barnard, Timothy (Translator), Altman, Rick (Foreword by)

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 ISBN: 0252078055     ISBN-13: 9780252078057
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
OUR PRICE: $33.60  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism
Dewey: 791.430
LCCN: 2010051031
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" L (0.80 lbs) 224 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Choice 11/01/2011
 
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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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