Early American Cinema In Transition

Author : Charlie Keil
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780299173630

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Early American Cinema in Transition by Charlie Keil Pdf

The period 1907–1913 marks a crucial transitional moment in American cinema. As moving picture shows changed from mere novelty to an increasingly popular entertainment, fledgling studios responded with longer running times and more complex storytelling. A growing trade press and changing production procedures also influenced filmmaking. In Early American Cinema in Transition, Charlie Keil looks at a broad cross-section of fiction films to examine the formal changes in cinema of this period and the ways that filmmakers developed narrative techniques to suit the fifteen-minute, one-reel format. Keil outlines the kinds of narratives that proved most suitable for a single reel’s duration, the particular demands that time and space exerted on this early form of film narration, and the ways filmmakers employed the unique features of a primarily visual medium to craft stories that would appeal to an audience numbering in the millions. He underscores his analysis with a detailed look at six films: The Boy Detective; The Forgotten Watch; Rose O’Salem-Town; Cupid’s Monkey Wrench; Belle Boyd, A Confederate Spy; and Suspense.

Author : Charlie Keil
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 029917364X

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Early American Cinema in Transition by Charlie Keil Pdf

The period 1907–1913 marks a crucial transitional moment in American cinema. As moving picture shows changed from mere novelty to an increasingly popular entertainment, fledgling studios responded with longer running times and more complex storytelling. A growing trade press and changing production procedures also influenced filmmaking. In Early American Cinema in Transition, Charlie Keil looks at a broad cross-section of fiction films to examine the formal changes in cinema of this period and the ways that filmmakers developed narrative techniques to suit the fifteen-minute, one-reel format. Keil outlines the kinds of narratives that proved most suitable for a single reel’s duration, the particular demands that time and space exerted on this early form of film narration, and the ways filmmakers employed the unique features of a primarily visual medium to craft stories that would appeal to an audience numbering in the millions. He underscores his analysis with a detailed look at six films: The Boy Detective; The Forgotten Watch; Rose O’Salem-Town; Cupid’s Monkey Wrench; Belle Boyd, A Confederate Spy; and Suspense.

Author : Charlie Keil,Shelley Stamp
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520240278

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American Cinema’s Transitional Era by Charlie Keil,Shelley Stamp Pdf

This 'transitional era' covered the years 1908-1917 & witnessed profound changes in the structure of the motion picture industry in the US, involving film genre, film form, filmmaking practices & the emergence of the studio system. The pattern which emerged dominated the industry for decades to come.

Author : Charlie Keil,Shelley Stamp
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520240278

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American Cinema’s Transitional Era by Charlie Keil,Shelley Stamp Pdf

The years between 1908 and 1917 witnessed what may have been the most significant transformation in American film history. During this "transitional era," widespread changes affected film form and film genres, filmmaking practices and industry structure, exhibition sites, and audience demographics. By the end of the period, cinema had moved toward the shape it would assume for decades under the studio system. This collection of new essays by prominent film scholars traces these myriad changes, presenting the most detailed and comprehensive portrait yet of this pivotal stage in cinema's development. Topics under discussion include debates about cinema's place in American culture; the influence of an evolving feature format; the role of state censorship; emerging genres and audiences; onscreen depictions of gender, race, and nationality; changing exhibition practices and theater locales; and the emergence of Hollywood as the nation's film capital. Contributors: Richard Abel, Constance Balides, Ben Brewster, Scott Curtis, Lee Grieveson, Tom Gunning, Charlie Keil, J. A. Lindstrom, Roberta E. Pearson, Jennifer Lynn Peterson, Lauren Rabinovitz, Ben Singer, Shelley Stamp, Jacqueline Stewart

Author : Charlie Keil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89095782363

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American Cinema from 1907 to 1913 by Charlie Keil Pdf

Author : Charlie Keil,Shelley Stamp
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520240278

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American Cinema’s Transitional Era by Charlie Keil,Shelley Stamp Pdf

This 'transitional era' covered the years 1908-1917 & witnessed profound changes in the structure of the motion picture industry in the US, involving film genre, film form, filmmaking practices & the emergence of the studio system. The pattern which emerged dominated the industry for decades to come.

Author : Donald Crafton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520221281

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The Talkies by Donald Crafton Pdf

This text offers readers a look at the time when sound was a vexing challenge for filmmakers and the source of contentious debate for audiences and critics. The author presents a view of the talkies' reception, amongst other issues.

Author : Stephen Sharot
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319417998

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Love and Marriage Across Social Classes in American Cinema by Stephen Sharot Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive and systematic study of cross-class romance films throughout the history of American cinema. It provides vivid discussions of these romantic films, analyses their normative patterns and thematic concerns, traces how they were shaped by inequalities of gender and class in American society, and explains why they were especially popular from World War I through the roaring twenties and the Great Depression. In the vast majority of cross-class romance films the female is poor or from the working class, the male is wealthy or from the upper class, and the romance ends successfully in marriage or the promise of marriage.

Author : Joel Frykholm
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781838715922

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George Kleine and American Cinema by Joel Frykholm Pdf

George Kleine was a New York City optician who moved to Chicago in 1893 to set up an optical store. In 1896 he branched out and began selling motion picture equipment and films. Within a few years he becameAmerica's largest film distributor and a pivotal figure in the movie business. In chronicling the career of this motion picture pioneer – including his rapid rise to fame and fortune, but also his gradual downfall after 1915 as the era of Hollywood began – Joel Frykholm provides an in-depth account of the emergence of the motion picture business in the United States and its development throughout the silent era. Through the lens of Kleine's fascinating career, this book explores how motion pictures gradually transformed from a novelty into an economic and cultural institution central to both American life and an increasingly globalised culture of mass entertainment.

Author : Nanna Verhoeff
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789053568316

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The West in Early Cinema by Nanna Verhoeff Pdf

Verhoeff investigates the emergence of the western genre, made in the first two decades of cinema (1895-1915). By analyzing many unknown and forgotten films from international archives she traces the relationships between films about the American West, their surrounding films, and other popular media such as photography, painting, (pulp) literature, Wild West Shows and popular ethnography. Through this exploration of archival material she raises new questions of historiography and provides a model for historical analysis. These first traces of the Western film reveal a preoccupation with presence and actuality that informs us about the way in which film, as new medium, took shape within the context of its contemporary visual culture. In The West in Early Cinema gaat Nanna Verhoeff op zoek naar de nog onbekende beginjaren van het westerngenre tijdens de eerste twee decennia van het medium film 1895-1915). Aan de hand van onbekende en vergeten films uit internationale filmarchieven traceert zij de relaties tussen films over het Westen, omringende filmgenres uit deze periode, en andere populaire media als fotografie, schilderkunst, (pulp)literatuur, Wild West Shows en populaire etnografie. Deze sporen van het genre tonen een grote actualiteit en variatie, die laat zien op welke manier de film als nieuw medium een vorm vond binnen de toenmalige visuele cultuur.

Author : Charlie Keil,Ben Singer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813544458

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American Cinema of the 1910s by Charlie Keil,Ben Singer Pdf

It was during the teens that filmmaking truly came into its own. Notably, the migration of studios to the West Coast established a connection between moviemaking and the exoticism of Hollywood. The essays in American Cinema of the 1910s explore the rapid developments of the decade that began with D. W. Griffith's unrivaled one-reelers. By mid-decade, multi-reel feature films were profoundly reshaping the industry and deluxe theaters were built to attract the broadest possible audience. Stars like Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks became vitally important and companies began writing high-profile contracts to secure them. With the outbreak of World War I, the political, economic, and industrial groundwork was laid for American cinema's global dominance. By the end of the decade, filmmaking had become a true industry, complete with vertical integration, efficient specialization and standardization of practices, and self-regulatory agencies.

Author : Richard Abel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780415234405

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Encyclopedia of Early Cinema by Richard Abel Pdf

One-volume reference work on the first twenty-five years of the cinema's international emergence from the early 1890s to the mid-1910s.

Author : Bruce Charles Posner
Publisher : Filmmakers Showcase
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Dance in motion pictures, television, etc
ISBN : 0962818178

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Unseen Cinema by Bruce Charles Posner Pdf

El proyecto de recuperación de películas históricas Unseen Cinema explora en detalle los logros, desconocidos hasta la fecha, de los cineastas pioneros que desarrollaron su labor dentro y fuera de las fronteras de Estados Unidos durante el periodo formativo del cine americano. Con la colaboración de innumerables instituciones, desde los archivos de la Academia de Cine de Hollywood, el Museo de Arte Moderno de Nueva York (MOMA), el British Film Institute, el Deustchen Film museum hasta el Gosfilmofond de Russia, la recuperación de estas películas y su posterior organización en 7 discos postula una visión innovadora del cine experimental. Un buen número de estas películas no había estado disponible desde su creación hace más de un siglo, algunas nunca se habían proyectado en público, y en casi todos los casos, hasta ahora, no se disponía de una copia prístina de proyección. En palabras de su compilador se trata de rectificar una pequeña parte de la negligencia con la que se ha tratado a los primeros cineastas y películas de vanguardia. Pese a la exhaustiva labor de busca y rastreo por parte de Posner y otros historiadores del cine para desenterrar las copias de los filmes incluidos en la colección, a día de hoy muchas no han sido recuperadas.

Author : Charlie Keil,Rob King
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190496692

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The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema by Charlie Keil,Rob King Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema is a collection of new scholarship that investigates the first decades of motion-picture history from diverse perspectives and methodologies. Featuring over thirty essays by leading scholars in the field, the Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of cinema's earliest years while also illuminating how cinema derived strength from competing cultural forms, becoming in the process the most influential mass medium of the early twentieth century.

Author : Andre Gaudreault
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813546445

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American Cinema 1890-1909 by Andre Gaudreault Pdf

At the turn of the twentieth century, cinema was quickly establishing itself as a legitimate form of popular entertainment. The essays in American Cinema 1890-1909 explore and define how the making of motion pictures flowered into an industry that would finally become the central entertainment institution of the world. Beginning with all the early types of pictures that moved, this volume tells the story of the invention and consolidation of the various processes that gave rise to what we now call "cinema." By examining the battles over patents, production, exhibition, and the reception of film, readers learn how going to the movies became a social tradition in American society. In the course of these two decades, cinema succeeded both in establishing itself among other entertainment and instructional media and in updating various forms of spectacle.