Research Catalog

Title

City of cinema : Paris 1850-1907 / edited by Leah Lehmbeck, Britt Salvesen, and Vanessa R. Schwartz.

Publication

• Los Angeles, CA : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; [New York] : DelMonico Books·D.A.P., [2022]
• New York, NY : ARTBOOK/D.A.P.
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lehmbeck, Leah Rosenblatt
• Salvesen, Britt
• Schwartz, Vanessa R.
• Rich, Aaron
• Jacobson, Brian R.
• Musée d'Orsay, host institution.
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, host institution.

Description

191 pages : illustrations (some color); 30 cm

Summary

City of Cinema traces film's evolution from obscure entertainment to significant art form of the 20th century. Placing cinema in the context of 19th-century Parisian visual culture, this book brings together posters, paintings, studio and documentary photography, and film stills that evoke Paris as a site of consumption, demonstrate early cinema's relationship with technology and the fine arts, and highlight local and global spaces of film production. It also examines the aspects of 19th-century visual culture that gave rise to cinema as a modern medium with an eager audience. Aligning with French beliefs that the nation's culture would be democratized through consumption, cinema reinforced a set of assumptions about French cultural and political authority and disseminated these ideas to the rest of the world.

Alternative Title

Enfin le cinéma, arts, images et spectacles en France 1833-1907.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Motion pictures > France > Paris > History > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Motion picture industry > France > Paris > History > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Art and motion pictures > France > Exhibitions
• Art, French > France > Paris > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Art and motion pictures
• Art, French
• Manners and customs
• Motion picture industry
• Motion pictures
• Paris (France) > Social life and customs > 19th century > Exhibitions
• France
• France > Paris

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• History.

Note

• "Published in conjunction with the exhibition City of Cinema: Paris, 1850-1907 ... Itinerary "Enfin le cinéma! Arts, images et spectacles en France (1833-1907) Musée d'Orsay, Paris, September 28, 2021-January 16, 2022 [and] "City of Cinema: Paris 1850-1907" Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 20-July 10, 2022"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-186).
• Filmography: pages 182-183.

Contents

Foreword / Michael Govan -- Paris projected / Leah Lehmbeck, Britt Salvesen, and Vanessa R. Schwartz -- Films / Aaron Rich -- La ville écran : Paris as screen city / Vanessa R. Schwartz -- Shaping the modern spectator : apparatus and audience from the diorama to the cinema / Britt Salvesen -- Fine art on film: painting, sculpture, and early French cinema / Leah Lehmbeck -- On the move : seeing the world in early transport films / Vanessa R. Schwartz -- Every world in one : Georges Méliès and the film studio / Brian R. Jacobson.

Call Number

MFL 22-137

ISBN

• 1636810217
• 9781636810218

LCCN

2021944411

OCLC

1289987794

Title

City of cinema : Paris 1850-1907 / edited by Leah Lehmbeck, Britt Salvesen, and Vanessa R. Schwartz.

Publisher

Los Angeles, CA : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; [New York] : DelMonico Books·D.A.P., [2022]

Distributor

New York, NY : ARTBOOK/D.A.P.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-186).

Filmography: pages 182-183.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Added Author

Lehmbeck, Leah Rosenblatt, editor, contributor.

Salvesen, Britt, editor, contributor.

Schwartz, Vanessa R., editor, contributor.

Rich, Aaron, contributor.

Jacobson, Brian R., contributor.

Musée d'Orsay, host institution.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, host institution.

Added Title

Enfin le cinéma, arts, images et spectacles en France 1833-1907.

Research Call Number

MFL 22-137