The Image in Early Cinema: Form and Material (Early Cinema in Review: Proceedings of Domitor) - Softcover

 
9780253034397: The Image in Early Cinema: Form and Material (Early Cinema in Review: Proceedings of Domitor)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0253034396 ISBN 13: 9780253034397
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2018

Synopsis

In The Image in Early Cinema, the contributors examine intersections between early cinematic form, technology, theory, practice, and broader modes of visual culture. They argue that early cinema emerged within a visual culture composed of a variety of traditions in art, science, education, and image making. Even as methods of motion picture production and distribution materialized, they drew from and challenged practices and conventions in other mediums. This rich visual culture produced a complicated, overlapping network of image-making traditions, innovations, and borrowing among painting, tableaux vivants, photography, and other pictorial and projection practices. Using a variety of concepts and theories, the contributors explore these crisscrossing traditions and work against an essentialist notion of media to conceptualize the dynamic interrelationship between images and their context.

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About the Author

Scott Curtis is Associate Professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University. He is author of The Shape of Spectatorship: Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany.

Philippe Gauthier lectures in cinema and media at the University of Ottawa. He is author of Le montage alterné avant Griffith.

Tom Gunning is Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. He is author of D. W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film: The Early Years at Biograph and The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity.

Joshua Yumibe is Associate Professor and Director of Film Studies at Michigan State University. He is author of Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism, and author of Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema.

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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0253034396
ISBN 13 
9780253034397
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
392
Editor
Curtis Scott, Gauthier Philippe, Gunning Tom, Yumibe Joshua