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Film and Attraction
From Kinematography to Cinema
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An important reexamination of early film history, translated from the French for the first time
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.
About the Author:
André Gaudreault is a professor at the Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques at the Université de Montréal, the author of From Plato to Lumière: Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema, and the editor of American Cinema 1890–1909: Themes and Variations. Timothy Barnard is a film historian, publisher, and translator.
Press Reviews:
"This work could indeed help rewrite the history of 'early cinema.' Highly recommended."--Choice
"Thoughtful and provocative."--Philip French, Times Literary Supplement
See the publisher website: University of Illinois Press
See the complete filmography of Georges Méliès on the website: IMDB ...
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The End of Cinema? (2015)
A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age
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Subject: General
From Plato to Lumiere (2009)
Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema
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in Fin-de-siècle Flip Books (1896-1901)
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