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Film and attraction : from kinematography to cinema / André Gaudreault ; translated by Timothy Barnard ; foreword by Rick Altman.
- Title
- Film and attraction : from kinematography to cinema / André Gaudreault ; translated by Timothy Barnard ; foreword by Rick Altman.
- Author
- Gaudreault, André
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.
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- Description
- xv, 207 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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."--Publisher.
- Uniform Title
- Cinéma et attraction. English
- Alternative Title
- Cinéma et attraction.
- Subject
- Motion pictures > France > History
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Looking at early cinema in a new light -- Emergence of the kinematograph -- Attraction and the kinematograph -- Intermediality and the kinematograph -- Problematic institutional space -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Discussion between the author and the editors of the Journal 1895 -- Appendix B: Kinematographic views: a discussion / by Georges Méliès ; edited and with annotations by Jacques Malth.
- ISBN
- 9780252035838
- 0252035836
- 9780252078057 (pbk.)
- 0252078055 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2010051031
- OCLC
- 670480100
- SCSB-10654531
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library