Chronology Of The Birth Of Cinema 1833 1896

Author : Deac Rossell
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780861969654

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Chronology of the Birth of Cinema 1833–1896 by Deac Rossell Pdf

Written from an international perspective, this account of the origins of the cinema begins in 1833 with the introduction of optical toys for reproducing movement and ends with a thorough examination of the first full year of projected moving pictures in 1896. Comprehensive and verifiable, with citations that support each individual entry, the book examines the events that culminated in the establishment of the moving picture world that was the dominant visual medium of the last century. Drawing on a range of international sources, this chronology is a readable, vivid account that corrects many longstanding errors in the story of moving pictures while at the same time recording the astounding diversity of ideas, apparatus, personalities, and exhibitions that turned a passing novelty into a major industry. Populated by dreamers, inventors, scientists, and entrepreneurs with widely different skills, interests, and backgrounds, the many origins of the cinema are all recorded here in a rich tapestry that has been woven with attention to the detailed shape and placement of each individual thread. The result is a fully- indexed reference that reflects the state of modern scholarship and should be useful over the long term as both a reference to the period of early cinema and as a starting point for further research.

Author : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009396738

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Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination by Martin M. Winkler Pdf

This book aims to enhance our appreciation of the modernity of the classical cultures and, conversely, of cinema's debt to ancient Greece and Rome. It explores filmic perspectives on the ancient verbal and visual arts and applies what is often referred to as pre-cinema and what Sergei Eisenstein called cinematism: that paintings, statues, and literature anticipate modern visual technologies. The motion of bodies depicted in static arts and the vividness of epic ecphrases point to modern features of storytelling, while Plato's Cave Allegory and Zeno's Arrow Paradox have been related to film exhibition and projection since the early days of cinema. The book additionally demonstrates the extensive influence of antiquity on an age dominated by moving-image media, as with stagings of Odysseus' arrow shot through twelve axes or depictions of the Golden Fleece. Chapters interpret numerous European and American silent and sound films and some television productions and digital videos.

Author : Dimitrios Latsis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780197689271

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How the Movies Got a Past by Dimitrios Latsis Pdf

How the Movies Got a Past presents a comprehensive survey of the rise of historiographical discourse on cinema in North America as it is reflected in publications, exhibitions, lectures, and films about the cinema as a technology, artform, and source of entertainment, from its inception up to 1930. With a wealth of case studies and illustrations, this book will appeal to media historians, silent movie buffs, film archivists, and students alike.

Author : Deac Rossell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0861964918

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A Chronology of Cinema, 1889-1896 by Deac Rossell Pdf

One hundred years ago, the first projected moving pictures appeared in laboratories and scientific demonstrations, as the drive to synthesize and reproduce motion, that had been urgently in the air for almost a decade, came to its peak. The new phenomenon swept around the world in 1896, a rapid internationalization that manifested itself not only in public screenings everywhere, but also in widespread professional contacts between manufacturers, exhibitors and filmmakers.

Author : Mario Slugan,Daniël Biltereyst
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350181984

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New Perspectives on Early Cinema History by Mario Slugan,Daniël Biltereyst Pdf

In this book, editors Mario Slugan and Daniël Biltereyst present a theoretical reconceptualization of early cinema. To do so, they highlight the latest methods and tools for analysis, and cast new light on the experience of early cinema through the application of these concepts and methods. The international host of contributors evaluate examples of early cinema across the globe, including The May Irwin Kiss (1896), Un homme de têtes (1900), The Terrible Turkish Executioner (1904) and Tom Tom the Piper's Son (1905). In doing so, they address the periodization of the era, emphasizing the recent boon in the availability of primary materials, the rise of digital technologies, the developments in new cinema history, and the persistence of some conceptualizations as key incentives for rethinking early cinema in theoretical and methodological terms. They go on to highlight cutting-edge approaches to the study of early cinema, including the use of the Mediathread Platform, the formation of new datasets with the help of digital technologies, and exploring the early era in non-western cultures. Finally, the contributors revisit early cinema audiences and exhibition contexts by investigating some of the earliest screenings in Denmark and the US, exploring the details of black cinema going in Harlem, and examining exhibition practices in Germany.

Author : Richard Abel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520079366

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The Ciné Goes to Town by Richard Abel Pdf

A history of French film

Author : Stephen Herbert
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0415211492

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A History of Pre-cinema by Stephen Herbert Pdf

This set reprints together for the first time rare and essential material on the history of pre-cinema.Volume 1: Olive Cook, Movement in Two Dimensions [1963]. Volume 2 features the first facsimile reprinting of the often-overlooked "British Journal of" "Photography," Volume 3 is comprised of a selection of articles originally published between 1827-1861.

Author : Hermann Hecht
Publisher : Bowker-Saur
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015032738687

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Pre-cinema History by Hermann Hecht Pdf

Author : Chris J Mitchell
Publisher : Chris J Mitchell
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Concise History of the Origins of Cinema by Chris J Mitchell Pdf

This book provides a short and concise overview of the vastly complex history of the origins of cinema. From the very first zoetropes and magic lanterns, to the first motion capture film cameras. Covering the key individuals involved in the creation of cinema, such as, Albertus Magnus, Eadweard Muybridge, Louis Le Prince and the Lumiere Brothers. Any film fan or anyone with an interest in the history of cinema should find this book both interesting and useful.

Author : Jane Chapman
Publisher : Polity
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745632438

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Comparative Media History by Jane Chapman Pdf

Comparative Media History is a unique thematic textbook which introduces students to the key ideas underpinning media development. It is an essential first step to a better understanding of both the media industry today and the way in which it evolved over time. The textbook compares developments and influences from a broad perspective, highlighting and contrasting different countries, industries and periods of history in order to encourage an understanding of cause and effect. In a style which is clear, accessible and provocative, Jane Chapman argues that most of the roots of today's media - even the globalizing impulse - lie in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The book emphasises continuity and certain decisive factors such as the social use of technology, the character of the institutions in which it is applied and the political approach of the specific countries involved. The comparative element to this book, both across countries and industries, will enable students to reflect on key issues in media studies, including those of diversity, form, method and choice, both past and present. It will become an essential text for any student of the media and its history. For more information about the book and the author, please see www.janechapman.co.uk

Author : Richard Abel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520912915

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The Cine Goes to Town by Richard Abel Pdf

Richard Abel's magisterial new book radically rewrites the history of French cinema between 1896 and 1914, particularly during the years when Pathé-Frères, the first major corporation in the new industry, led the world in film production and distribution. Based on extensive investigation of rare archival films and documents, and drawing on recent social and cultural histories of turn-of-the-century France and the United States, his book provides new insights into the earliest history of the cinema. Abel tells how early French film entertainment changed from a cinema of attractions to the narrative format that Hollywood would so successfully exploit. He describes the popular genres of the era—comic chases, trick films and féeries, historical and biblical stories, family melodramas and grand guignol tales, crime and detective films—and shows the shift from short subjects to feature-length films. Cinema venues evolved along with the films as live music, color effects, and other new exhibiting techniques and practices drew larger and larger audiences. Abel explores the ways these early films mapped significant differences in French social life, helping to produce thoroughly bourgeois citizens for Third Republic France. The Ciné Goes to Town recovers early French cinema's unique contribution to the development of the mass culture industry. As the one-hundredth anniversary of cinema approaches, this compelling demonstration of film's role in the formation of social and national identity will attract a wide audience of film scholars, social and cultural historians, and film enthusiasts.

Author : Tjitte de Vries,Ati Mul
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789085550167

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"They Thought it was a Marvel" by Tjitte de Vries,Ati Mul Pdf

Was 1906 the year of birth of animation pictures? Or 1908? Was France the place of birth, or was it the United States? --

Author : Glendinning Miles Glendinning
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : ARCHITECTURE
ISBN : 9781474468503

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History of Scottish Architecture by Glendinning Miles Glendinning Pdf

At last - here is a single volume authoritative history of Scottish architecture. This compact yet comprehensive account combines factual description of the vast and fertile range of visual forms and key architects in each period with a wide-ranging analysis of their social, ideological and historical context. As Scotland has often been closely involved with new trends in western architecture, this book highlights the interaction of Scottish developments with broader European and international movements. From the beginnings of the Renaissance in the 15th century right up to the 1990s ,this much-needed survey covers the entire post-medieval story in one volume.

Author : Stephen Herbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN : 1003401058

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A History of Early Film by Stephen Herbert Pdf

Volume 1 of A History of Early Film begins with the period of technical invention. The story of Edison's peepshow Kinetoscope, set up in arcades from April 1894, is told by W. K. L. Dickson. 'Lantern Projection of Moving Objects' heralds the arival of the first screenings in Britain, arranged by Auguste and Louis Lumi©·re, Robert Paul and Birt Acres, announcing the new medium as a progressive development of optical moving-image toys, magic lantern projection and the Kinetoscope. It includes an evocative selection of advertisements for the earliest films and cinematographic apparatus of 1896-7. The last part of the volume covers 1901-6 as the medium of cinema developed.

Author : Wanda Strauven
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789053569450

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The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded by Wanda Strauven Pdf

Twenty years ago, noted film scholars Tom Gunning and André Gaudreault introduced the phrase “cinema of attractions” to describe the essential qualities of films made in the medium’s earliest days, those produced between 1895 and 1906. Now, The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded critically examines the term and its subsequent wide-ranging use in film studies. The collection opens with a history of the term, tracing the collaboration between Gaudreault and Gunning, the genesis of the term in their attempts to explain the spectacular effects of motion that lay at the heart of early cinema, and the pair’s debts to Sergei Eisenstein and others. This reconstruction is followed by a look at applications of the term to more recent film productions, from the works of the Wachowski brothers to virtual reality and video games. With essays by an impressive collection of international film scholars—and featuring contributions by Gunning and Gaudreault as well—The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded will be necessary reading for all scholars of early film and its continuing influence.