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Reading the cinematograph : the cinema in British short fiction, 1896-1912
- Title
- Reading the cinematograph : the cinema in British short fiction, 1896-1912 / edited and annotated by Andrew Shail.
- Publication
- Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2010.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Shail, Andrew, 1978-
- Description
- xi, 298 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Exeter studies in film history
- Uniform Title
- Exeter studies in film history.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-291) and index.
- Contents
- Story 1: Our detective story (24 January 1897) / by Dagonet (George R. Sims) -- George R. Sims and the film as evidence / Stephen Bottomore -- Story 2: The awful story of Heley Croft (20 May 1899) / by A.S. Appelbee -- Cinema re-mystified : A.S. Appelbee's technological ghost story / David Trotter and Chris O'Rourke -- Story 3: Colonel Rankin's advertisement (December 1901) / by Raymond Rayne -- The great American kinetograph : news, fakery and the Boer War / Andrew Shail -- Story 4: Mrs. Bathurst (September 1904) / by Rudyard Kipling -- 'The very thing' : Rudyard Kipling's 'Mrs. Bathurst' / Tom Gunning -- Story 5: The green spider (October 1904) / by A(rthur Henry) Sarsfield Ward, a.k.a. Sax Rohmer -- 'Only from the senses' : detection, early cinema and a giant green spider / Stacy Gillis -- Story 6: Romantic Lucy (Summer 1911) / by Alphonse Courlander -- 'She had so many appearances' : Alphonse Courlander and the birth of the 'moving picture girl' / Jon Burrows -- Story 7: Love and the bioscope : a heart-thrilling story of a deserted bride (8 June 1912) / by Mrs. H.J. Bickle -- Melodrama, sensation and the discourse of modernity in 'Love and the bioscope' / Lise Shapiro Sanders -- Story 8: The sense of touch (December 1912) / by Ole Luk-Oie (Ernest Dunlop Swinton) -- A visit to the cinema in 1912 : 'The sense of touch' / Andrew Higson.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-32
- ISBN
- 9780859898539
- 0859898539
- 9780859898546 (pbk.)
- 0859898547 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 457149382
- Title
- Reading the cinematograph : the cinema in British short fiction, 1896-1912 / edited and annotated by Andrew Shail.
- Imprint
- Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2010.
- Series
- Exeter studies in film historyExeter studies in film history.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-291) and index.
- Added Author
- Shail, Andrew, 1978-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-32