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Disappearing
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Silent
Film, Houdini and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century |
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entirely new and comprehensive approach to the relationship
between stage magic and early cinema.
Disappearing
Tricks revisits the golden age of theatrical
magic and silent film to reveal how professional magicians
shaped the early history of cinema. While others have
called upon magic as merely an evocative metaphor for
the wonders of cinema, Matthew Solomon focuses on the
work of the professional illusionists who actually made
magic with moving pictures between 1895 and 1929.
The
first to reveal fully how powerfully magic impacted
the development of cinema, the book combines film and
theater history to uncover new evidence of the exchanges
between magic and filmmaking in the United States and
France during the silent period.
Chapters detailing the stage and screen work of Harry
Houdini and Georges Méliès show how each
transformed theatrical magic to create innovative cinematic
effects and thrilling new exploits for twentieth-century
mass audiences. The book also considers the previously
overlooked roles of anti-spiritualism and presentational
performance in silent film.
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Highlighting
early cinema's relationship to the performing body, visual deception,
storytelling, and the occult, Solomon treats cinema and stage
magic as overlapping practices that together revise our understanding
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Film
and Attraction - From Kinematography to Cinema |
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An
important reexamination of early
film history, translated from the French for the
first time!
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.
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Gaudreault is a professor at the Département d’histoire
de l’art et d’études cinématographiques at the Université
de Montréal, the author of From Plato to Lumière:
Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema, and the editor
of American Cinema 1890–1909: Themes and Variations. |
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What
Makes a Film Tick |
Cinematic
Affect, Materiality and the Mimetic Innervation |
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Anne Rutherford |
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This
book offers a close study of how film produces sensory-affective
experience for the spectator. It argues that we
must explore this affective dimension if we want to understand
how cinema takes up cultural or thematic issues. Examining
cinematic affect through close readings of how affective
immersion in cinema works to engage viewers with history,
memory and cultural specificity, it deals with both fiction
film and documentary.
Taking an international perspective, it includes case
studies of Korean detective film, classical Japanese cinema,
modern Greek cinema, independent American cinema, Indian
documentary, Australian television documentary, Indonesian
political docudrama, avantgarde French documentary and
Australian Indigenous film.
Rutherford draws on the analysis of embodied affect to
revise many of the foundational concepts of film studies.
Drawing on Miriam Hansen's readings of Walter Benjamin
and Siegfried Kracauer, the book explores the capacity
of film to produce experiences in which the boundaries
between the spectator and the film become porous and the
viewer is transported in a heightened way into the film.
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They
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Melbourne-Cooper (1874-1961) Pioneer of Puppet Animation |
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In
a world obsessed with firsts, this fascinating book
with its accompanying DVD analyses the stop-motion
films made by the British pioneer filmmaker Arthur
Melbourne-Cooper, arguably the maker of the first
ever animation, MATCHES APPEAL, dating from 1899, in
which an animated matchstick writes out on a blackboard
an appeal to the British audience urging them to donate
money to subsidise shipments of matches to the troops
fighting in the Boer War in South Africa.
If this dating of the film is correct, it would make
it the first-ever animated film
shown in cinemas, years ahead of the known early animations,
and long before Walt Disney was born.
Drawing on a wealth of archival material, frame-by-frame
analysis, as well as interviews with Melbourne-Cooper
and his family and associates, this book argues convincingly
in favour of this early dating of MATCHES
APPEAL, and sketches an unforgettable portrait
of animations early days, while being a vital contribution
to the history of early cinema.
The DVD of the six surviving animation films made by
Melbourne-Cooper is a wonderful revelation of what early
cinema-going audiences saw and marvelled at.
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Emile Cohl:
l' Inventeur du dessin animé |
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Pierre Courtet-Cohl, Bernard Génin, Isao Takahata
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Cohl: l' Inventeur du dessin animé
Emile
Cohl: Inventor the Animation Film
Biography & Filmography of
Emile Cohl, inventor of animation film.
Emile Cohl started his cinema career at the age of 50,
producing more than 300 films, only 65 of his living
pictures are recovered.
The book is accompanied by two DVD's
(click) making
Cohl's oeuvre available from one source for the first
time.
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| Encyclopedia
of Early Cinema |
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Richard Abel. |
Paperback
edition of the The Encyclopedia of Early Cinema,
a unique one-volume reference work which explores the
first 25 years of cinema's development, from the
early 1890s to the mid-1910s.
This
encyclopedia covers all aspects of scholarship on early
cinema, both traditional and revisionist. It contains
articles on the technological and industrial developments,
the techniques of film production, the actors and filmmakers
of the time, and on the changing modes of representation
and narration, as well as the social and cultural contexts
within which early films circulated, including topics
such as distribution, exhibition and audience.
More
than 950 entries have been commissioned from internationally
recognized specialists. Alphabetically organized, the
entries range in length from short factual articles to
full essays that offer clear and stimulating discussions
of the key issues, people, practices, and phenomena of
early cinema.
A thematic list of entries is a useful guide through the
book, and all entries contain detailed cross-references.
The longer articles have considered suggestions for further
reading, which are complemented by a general bibliography
of specialized works on early cinema.
The
Encyclopedia of Early Cinema is an invaluable and fascinating
resource for students and researchers interested in the
history of cinema. Available in paperback
&
hardback.
See
also Stephen Herbert's 3 volume set's on Early
Film & Pre-Cinema
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Now
Playing:
Early Moviegoing and the Regulation of Fun |
By
Paul S. Moore
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Now
Playing
locates
the origins of the mass audience and the emergence of
everyday moviegoing in the culture of cities. Using Toronto
as a case study, and focusing on a period from the opening
of the first theaters showcasing moving pictures in 1906
to the end of World War I, Now Playing locates the origins
of our present-day mass audience in the culture of cities.
Paul S. Moore examines the emergence of everyday moviegoing
and its regulation through neglected details like fire
safety, newspaper ads, serial films, and amusement taxes,
connecting them to more familiar themes of studio ownership
of theaters, censorship, and journalism.
“The research effort that has gone into this book is commendable.
For the period from 1906 to 1918, Paul Moore has scoured
government documents, trade publications, religious periodicals,
and especially the daily press, looking for any scrap
of information about the introduction of motion pictures
to Toronto.” — Canadian Journal of Law and Society.
“Paul Moore handles his subject brilliantly. The questions
he addresses are crucial for the advancement of our
comprehension of early cinema, and the book is a model
for pinpoint historical research.” — André Gaudreault,
Université de Montréal.
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Filmmaker - D. W. Griffith and the American Theatre
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“David
Mayer combines groundbreaking archival work with first-rate
cultural history to establish the lineage between theatre
and early film. Mayer’s clear and nuanced reading challenges
current views of melodrama, early film acting, and verisimilitude
in art, indeed the very relationship between stage and
screen in D. W. Griffith’s America"
Rosemarie K. Bank, Kent State University
“This fascinating study makes a compelling
case for how intricately D. W. Griffith’s historic film
career was embedded in and influenced by the American
theatre.”
Kim Marra, author of Strange Duets: Impresarios and
Actresses in the American Theatre, 1865–1914.
An actor, a vaudevillian, and a dramatist before he
became a filmmaker, D. W. Griffith used the resources
of theatre to great purpose and to great ends. In pioneering
the quintessentially modern medium of film from the
1890s to the 1930s, he drew from older, more broadly
appealing stage forms of melodrama, comedy, vaudeville,
and variety. In Stagestruck Filmmaker, David Mayer brings
Griffith’s process vividly to life, offering detailed
and valuable insights into the racial, ethnic, class,
and gender issues of these transitional decades.
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Man who made Movies -
W. K. L. Dickson |
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W.K.L.
Dickson was Thomas Edison’s assistant: for Edison he was
in charge of experimentation that led to the Kinetoscope
and Kinetograph, the first commercially successful moving
image machines.
Dickson established what we know today as the 35mm format
(in 1891–1892); designed the Black Maria film studio and
facilities to develop and print film; and he supervised
production of more than 100 films for Edison (he acted
as producer-director using an assistant to operate camera).
After leaving Edison he was a founding member of the American
Mutoscope Co. (later American Mutoscope & Biograph,
then Biograph). He also set-up production; designed a
studio; trained staff and supervised film production.
In 1897 he went to England to set-up the European branch
of the company and repeated all that again.
During his career he made between 500 and 700 films and
many of his films are images used by scholars of the period
– Fred Ott Sneezing, Sandow Annabelle’s Butterfly Dances,
etc.
His career touched many of the pioneers of the industry
so by looking at his work, this well-illustrated book
covers much of the early history of the industry, but
from the perspective of his career. It is also a window
on Thomas Edison, but from a quite different perspective.
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Delights -
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Exhibition and Reception
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Edited
by Vanessa Toulmin & Simon Popple.
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Visual
Delights II, Exhibition and Reception is an international
anthology of papers taken from the successful second Visual
Delights conference held at the University of Sheffield
in 2002.
It brings together a rich vein of material covering many
aspects of popular and visual culture in the late Victorian
and early Edwardian period. Interdisciplinary in approach,
it includes essays on nineteenth century circus performers,
early cinema exhibition practice, ‘penny dreadfuls’, lantern
culture, early colour experiments and popular photography.
With essays from internationally renowned historians in
the fields of early cinema, art history, performance,
photography and theatre studies, it offers a wealth of
significant new material and demonstrates a variety of
approaches to this rich material.
The book is lavishly illustrated with contemporary photographs,
posters, magic lantern slides and engravings and provides
a rich visual resource for the further study of nineteenth
century visual culture and performance practice.
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Film Distribution 1895 - 1915
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Edited
by Frank Kessler & Nanna Verhoef.
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This
collection of essays explores the complex issue of film
distribution from the invention of cinema into the 1910s.
From regional distribution networks to international
marketing strategies, from the analysis of distribution
catalogues to case studies on individual distributors
these essays written by well-known specialists in the
field discuss the intriguing question of how films came
to meet their audiences.
As these essays show, distribution is in fact a major
force structuring the field in which cinema emerges
in the late 19th and early 20th century, a phenomenon
with many facets and many dimensions having an impact
on production and exhibition, on offer and demand, on
film form as well as on film viewing.
A phenomenon that continues to play a central role for
early films even today, as digital media, the dvd as
well as the internet, are but the latest channels of
distribution through which they come to us.
Among the authors are Richard Abel, André Gaudreault,
Viva Paci, Gregory Waller, Wanda Strauven, Martin Loiperdinger,
Joseph Garncarz, Charlie Keil, Marta Braun, and François
Jost.
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1900: Technology, Perception, Culture
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Edited
by Annemone Ligensa & Klaus Kreimeier.
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The
current digital revolution has sparked a renewed interest
in the origins and trajectory of modern media, particularly
in the years around 1900, a period of rapid and profound
cultural change.
This collection aims to broaden our understanding of early
cinema as a significant innovation in media history. Joining
traditional scholarship with fresh insights from a variety
of disciplines, this book explores the institutional and
aesthetic characteristics of early cinema as a specific
configuration of technology, perception and culture.
It situates early cinema in trans-cultural developments,
such as scientific revolutions, industrialization, urbanization,
and globalization, but also addresses cultural differences
in the process of modernization. Film 1900 is an important
reassessment of early cinema’s position in cultural history.
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A History of Early Film
Selected
and with a new introduction by Stephen Herbert
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Selected
& introduction by Stephen Herbert |
Selected
& introduction by Stephen Herbert |
Selected
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Routledge's
A History of Early Film comprises reprints
of important and interesting writings on the subject, from
1894-1917. There was much development in these early days,
in both film production and exhibition. This contribution
considers the actual films, the technologies that made them
possible, and their exhibition in a variety of venues, seen
through publications of the period.
This set collects together for the first time rare and scattered
material on the history of early film. Many histories of early
film are needed, if we are to develop our understanding of
the first years of motion pictures. This selection is limited
to the English language, and mostly relates to early film
in Britain - then important in both production and exhibition
- with some reference to USA and Europe.
This three volume set is a unique facsimile set of rare documents
on 'Early Film'. Priority is
given to documents that are rare and/or difficult to consult.
For this, the set has great value for
researchers by giving insight on vintage documents
dating back to the period of early cinema and cinematography.
This work is divided into the following sections:
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one / Invention / Victorian Cinema (1894-1901)
/ The medium develops (1901-6)
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two An established industry (1907-14)
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three Critical appraisal and the social concern
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| The
Travelling Cinemathograph Show |
by
Kevin Scrivens & Stephen Smith. |
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The
Travelling Cinemathograph Show.
(information from publisher)
Acknowledged as a classic book detailing the
advent of moving pictures in Britain and its transfer
to the fairgrounds, at first as a novelty in small booths,
and then its subsequent growth into magnificent travelling
picture palaces.
The book attempts to catalogue every show that travelled
Great Britain, with many detailed biographical notes about
the people that travelled them.
There is also a detailed biographical section on the mechanical
organs which were attached to the shows and the intense
competition in the fairground organ building industry
in Paris.
'The Travelling Cinemathograph Show'
can be ordered directly from:
info@joylandbooks.com
ISBN Number: 0 9535067 0 2
Click cover to open the Joylandbooks bookpage.
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| Silent
Cinema - An introduction |
By
Paolo Cherchi Usai. |
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Silent
Cinema - An introduction.
Published for the first time in English in 1994,
as Burning Passions, Cherchi
Usai's groundbreaking guide to silent film studies has
become the indispensable textbook for scholars, researchers
and archivists.
This much-awaited sequel to the first edition has been
extensively rewritten and updated in order to reflect
the spectacular development witnessed by the discipline
in the past few years.
In addition, two new chapters have been added for this
edition. The first is an extensive analysis of colour
technology and aesthetics,
from hand-colouring to the
dawn of Technicolor. The
second is a detailed account of how silent films are saved
from destruction, restored, and made accessible by film
archives.
A number of new illustrations, tables, bibliographical
references and historical sources add additional value
to this fundamental survey of the first thirty years in
the history of the moving image.
Click on cover
for more information or to order this book.
See
also Routledge's Encyclopedia
of Early Cinema
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| Silent
Film Sound |
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Rick Altman. |
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Silent
Film Sound.
This book is an unprecedented reference source
for the history and use of life music accompaniment during
silent film projection. The
history of sound practices in the silent cinema era is
less known and a less obvious field for research.
Altman however rewrites the history
of sound practices by the aid of primary sources.
This major work is a key reference book for all film libraries,
pre-cinema & early cinema collections.
More information on this book can be read on the Columbia
University Press bookpage
where also bookorders can be placed. See also Amazon
to order this title.
Rick Altman is professor of cinema and comparative literature
at the University of Iowa. He is the author of 'The
American Film Musical', editor of 'Sound Theory
Sound Practice', and coeditor of 'The Sounds
of Early Cinema'.
See some further links to Early Cinema websites.
- Film
Sound History.
- Early
Cinema related sites.
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FILM IS DANGEROUS -
A CELEBRATION OF NITRATE FILM |
The
International Federation of Film Archives
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This
book, published by the FIAF,
is an homage to the precious and most vulnerable first
50 years of film history. One of the many chapters in
the book is dedicated to the dangers of fire and nitrate.
The then chapters of this mammoth volume (690
pages) explains various facets of nitrate.
Deac Rossel, member of both, The
British Film Institute and The
Magic Lantern Society of Great-Britain unveils
the history of celluloid.
To most people it is less known that a large amount of
these vintage moving images were colored by hand, frame
by frame.
A small selection of film stills are illustrating this
myriad of colors so characteristic for the early film
era.
The book publishes articles by more than 100 authors.
The papers given at the symposium 'The
Last Nitrate Picture Show', FIAF Congress june
2000, is included.
350 illustrations, with two color sections, are illustrating
this combustible part of early film history. The book
concludes with a Nitrate Filmography.
Click on cover to order the book directly from FIAF
Bookshop.
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| Le
Cinéma Graphique |
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Cinéma Graphique
'Le Cinéma Graphique' offers a 170
years history of animated drawings and optical
toys to the age of today's digital cinema. The amazing
world of serial drawings and paintings to conjure-up the
of cinema and his early forerunners such as Emile Reynaud's
'Theatre Optique'.
The book offers a new approach
on the history of cinema, the arts, spectacles, television,
Internet, audiovisual design and video games. This is
one of the rare well researched publications offering
a wide scope on the development of the animated image.
The author studied intensively the art of graphic cinema
and realized a film on the movement of stroboscopic discs
from the 19th
century.
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Early
Cinema: From Factory Gate To Dream Factory
Simon Popple and Joe Kember
'Early Cinema: From Factory Gate To Dream Factory'
explores the period 1895 to 1914 when cinema established
itself as the leading form of 'visual
culture' among rapidly expanding global media.
It emerged from a rich tradition of scientific, economic,
entertainment and educational practices, and quickly developed
as a worldwide institution. The book introduce the student
to the study of cinema as a series of aesthetic, technological,
cultural, ideological and economic debates while exploring
new and challenging approaches to the subject.
It is divided into thematic sections with a broad topic
and making use of the latest research in this field presenting
both critical and practical advice for the student through
a series of case studies.
(Information from the back-cover
of the publication)
"Bringing new perspectives
and rigour to the study of film and popular culture, there
is a real need for the up-to-date introduction that Popple
and Kember provide"
(Prof. Ian Christie - Birbeck College,
London)
The book is published by the Wallflower
Press
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| Uncany
Bodies |
By
Robert Spadoni. |
| The
Coming of Sound Film and the Origins of the Horror Genre |
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(information
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Uncany
Bodies
The Coming of Sound Film and the Origins of the Horror
Genre.
In 1931 Universal Pictures released Dracula
and Frankenstein, two films
that inaugurated the horror genre in Hollywood cinema.
These films appeared directly on the heels of Hollywood's
transition to sound film.
Uncanny Bodies argues that the coming of sound inspired
more in these massively influential horror movies than
screams, creaking doors, and howling wolves. A close examination
of the historical reception of films of the transition
period reveals that sound films could seem to their earliest
viewers unreal and ghostly.
By comparing this audience impression to the first sound
horror films, Robert Spadoni makes a case for understanding
film viewing as a force that can powerfully shape both
the minutest aspects of individual films and the broadest
sweep of film production trends, and for seeing aftereffects
of the temporary weirdness of sound film deeply etched
in the basic character of one of our most enduring film
genres.
More information can be found on the University
of California Press website.
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| Performing
Illusions - Cinema, Special Effects and the Virtual Actor |
By
Dan North.. |
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Performing
Illusions.
The camera supposedly
never lies, yet film's ability
to frame, cut and reconstruct all that passes before its
lens made cinema the pre-eminent medium of visual
illusion and revelation from the early twentieth
century onwards.
This volume examines film's creative
history of special effects and trickery, encompassing
everything from George Méliès’ first trick
films to the modern CGI era.
Evaluating movements towards the use of computer-generated
'synthespians' in films such as Final Fantasy: The Spirits
Within (2001), this title suggests that cinematic effects
should be understood not as attempts to mimic real life
perfectly but as constructions of substitute realities,
situating them in the cultural lineage of the stage performers
and illusionists of the nineteenth century.
With analyses of films such as Destination Moon (1950),
Spider-Man (2002) and the King Kong films (1933 and 2006),
this new volume provides an insight into cinema's capacity
to perform illusions.
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Press.
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Cinema of Jan Švankmajer |
Edited
by Peter Hames. |
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The
Cinema of Jan Švankmajer.
The Cinema of Jan Švankmajer explores the legacy of
this legendary Czech surrealist
filmmaker, a key influence on directors such
as Terry Gilliam and Tim
Burton, and one of the greatest animators in
film history.
Thus updated second edition _ still the only full-length
study of his work _ features contributions from
scholars and colleagues within the Czech
surrealist movement, as well as a new chapter
on Švankmajer's feature films and an extended interview
with Švankmajer himself.
This volume is required reading for students of Czech
cinema as well as all budding animators and disciples
of surrealism.
Click
cover for information or order this book from Wallflower
Press.
Click cover for information or order this book from
Columbia
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Œuvre de Georges Méliès' |
By
Laurent Mannoni & Jaques Malthête. |
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'l'
Œuvre de Georges Méliès'
A wonderful and unprecedented Méliès
Oeuvre catalogue illustrated with 500 documents from
the Cinémathèque Française and
the CNC.
The catalogue is accompanying the exhibition in the
Cinémathèque
Française curated by Laurent Mannoni & Jaques
Malthête.
Click on cover for more information or to order this
publication.
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information on the new Méliès
catalogue and DVD.
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| Stereoscopic
Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film |
By
Ray Zone. |
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Stereoscopic
Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film.
This book is a welcome addition to the publications
devoted to Stereoscopic Cinema.
At the dawn of cinematography, the three-dimensional
image was already at the height of his popularity thanks
to widespread stereoscopic photographs.
By this as it may, 'The Power
of Love' (1922), first stereoscopic film, profits
from a stereoscopic technology and experience started
in 1838 with the invention of the Wheatstone stereoscope.
The book's content unveils a myriad
of trivia such as the above fact which correct
the general idea that stereoscopic cinema started in
the 1950's with the aid of red & blue anaglyph glasses
to separate the left & right images.
Besides the thorough research on the chronology of 3-D
films, the book is also looking back to the forerunners
of stereoscopic sight as experienced in the 18th.
Century
peepshows.
'Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film' can
be ordered directly from: Kentucky
Press. Click on cover for more information
or to order this book.
See also the author's
website.
Click for Visual Media's introduction
on stereoscopy.
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Horror Genre - From Beelzebub to Blair Witch |
by
Paul Wells. |
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The
Horror Genre
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From
Beelzebub to Blair Witch
A concise and accessible introduction to the history and
key themes of one of the most important film genres in
cinema history. The main issues and debates raised by
horror and the approaches and theories that have been
applied to horror texts are all explored.
In addressing the evolution of the
horror film in social and historical context, this
volume explores how it has reflected and commented upon
particular historical periods, and asks how it may respond
to the new millennium by citing recent innovations in
the genre's development, such as the urban myth narrative
underpinning Candyman and The Blair Witch Project.
Paul Wells is Director of Animation at the Animation Academy,
Loughborough University, UK. He is the author of Animation:
Genre and Authorship (2002)
Click cover for information or order this book from Wallflower
Press.
Click cover for information or order this book from Columbia
University Press.
Read about the forerunner of Horror
movies on Early Visual Media. |
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| The
Man Who Stopped Time |
by
Brian Clegg. |
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The
Man Who Stopped Time.
The
photographs of Eadweard Muybridge
are immediately familiar to us. Less familiar is the dramatic
personal story of this seminal and wonderfully eccentric
Victorian pioneer, now brought to life for the first time
in this engaging and thoroughly entertaining biography.
His work is iconic: the first icons of the modern visual
age. Men, women, boxers, wrestlers, racehorses, elephants
and camels frozen in time, captured in the act of moving,
fighting, galloping, living. Scarcely a day goes by without
their derivate use somewhere in today's media. And if
most of us have seen Muybridge's distinctive stop-motion
photographs, all of us have seen the fruit of his
extraordinary technological innovation: today's cinema
and television.
But it is his personal life
that possesses all the ingredients of a classic non-fiction
best-seller: a passionately driven man struggling against
the odds; dire treachery and shocking betrayal; a cast
of larger-than-life characters set against a backdrop
of San Francisco and the Far West in its most turbulent
and dangerous era; a profusion of scientific and artistic
advances and discoveries, one hotly following on another;
the nervous intensity of two spectacular courtroom dramas
(one pitting Muybridge against the richest man in the
land and staring ruin in the face, the other sees him
fighting for his life).
And for the opening act, a foul murder on a dark and stormy
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Skillfully articulating the fascinating history of a now ubiquitous
technology, author Brian Clegg combines ingredients from science
and biography to create an eminently readable, fast-paced, and
surprising story.
Click
on cover
for more information or to order this catalogue.
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Haunted Gallery - Painting, Photography, Film c. 1900 |
By
Lynda Nead. |
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The
Haunted Gallery.
The dawn
of cinema dramatically changed our visual culture.
'The
Haunted Gallery'
is a fascinating and well illustrated book showing the
influences of the young medium, Moving
Pictures, in relation to Painting,
Photography,
Magic Lantern pictures, Astronomy
and Stage Magic at
the 'hing point' of the 19th.
& 20th. Centuries.
This groundbreaking book explores the history of Visual
Media in Britain during this key period that witnessed
a transformation from stasis to movement across the entire
range of Visual Media.
For this as it may, this book should become one of the
inavitable reference sources for all 'vintage and today's'
media history enthusiasts.
Click
on cover for more information or to order this book.
'The
Haunted Gallery' (291 pages) can be ordered
directly from:
Yale
University Press. |
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| William
Haggar - Fairground Film maker |
By
Peter Yorke. |
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William
Haggar - Fairground Film maker.
Biography of a Pioneer of the Cinema.
Since most people came in contact with the invention
of cinemathography on Fairground, a biography on the
life of a Fairground exhibitor
offers a wonderful look behind the scenes of these earliest
pioneer public filmscreenings.
The author, Peter
Yorke, is William Haggar's great-grandson
which gives the book an even more greater appeal since
the story is based on oral reminiscences, unpublished
family memoirs and contemporary press reports.
Read more about the book on the author's
website.
This book is a must for all interested in Victorian
itinerant theatres, fairground bioscope shows, the films
by Haggar himself and popular entertainment at the end
of the 19th.
and the dawn of the 20th.
Century in general.
'William
Haggar - Fairground Film maker'
can
be ordered directly from:
Áccent
Press Ltd.
Click
on cover for more information or to order this book.
Visit
another Fairground
exhibitor on Early Visual Media.
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| .Animation
Art at Auction, The Early Years |
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Series
of 3 books
Animation Art at Auction |
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Animation
Art at Auction - since 1994. |
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This
is a lavishly illustrated 3 volume series of animation
ephemera prizes realized in auction houses.
Depicted and still available are vol. I 'The
early Years: 1911 - 1953' and vol. 3 'Since
1994'
Besides their commercial purpose, the books act as an
important reference guide with hundreds of illustrations
from animation films and the studios who produced them.
''Animation
Art at Auction'
is available from Bushwood
Books. P&P free within
the UK. |
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| The
Cinema of Attractions Reloaded |
by
Wanda Strauven. |
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University of Chicago Press) |
The
Cinema of Attractions Reloaded.
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.
'The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded' can be ordered directly
from: Amsterdam
University Press. Click on cover for more information
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Praxinoscope au cellulo: |
Editorial
par Véronique Cayla. |
un
demi-siècle de cinéma d’animation en France
(1892-1948) |
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'Du
Praxinoscope au Cellulo' is an important reference
source for the first 50 years of animation film in France.
It was published on the occasion of a rétrospective
held in the Cinémathèque
Française, Paris.
The catalogue offers an extensive chronology on the first
half century of animation in France.
Starting with Emiel Reynaud's,
on glass painted, moving images (1892) in which, for the
first time, perforations where used to transport and synchronise
the hand-painted transparencies.
The lavishly illustrated book features a complete
technical fiche of 120 French animation films.
In addition, a good selection of 14 films on DVD
is enclosed in this book.
Published by the CNC (Centre
National de la Cinématographie)
the catalogue can be ordered from Scope
Editions.
This catalogue + DVD is an essential reading for students,
researchers, collectors and enthusiast in (French) animation
films.
Click on cover for more information or to order this book.
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E. J. Marey |
Sous la direction de Dominique de Font-Réaulx,. |
Actes
du colloque du centenaire
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Thierry
Lefebvre et Laurent Mannoni.
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E. J. Marey. Actes
du colloque du centenaire
In 2004, the centenary of the death of E.
J. Marey was celebrated (1830 - 1904).
Marey was the inventor of 'La méthode Graphique,
Chronophotography and and keyfigure in the cinema pioneer
era.
The text of the 2004 colloquium «Étienne-Jules
Marey et le Film Scientifique», is now available
in a new key reference book 'E. J. Marey.
Actes
du colloque du centenaire'
In addition, the book is accompanied by an an unprecedented
chronopictorial reference source featuring a DVD
with 400 early films.
More information on this well illustrated book can be
read on the Cinémathèque's Colloque Marey
page.
The book is available in the Cinémathèque'
s bookshop or can be ordered directly from the publisher
ARCADIA.
400 chronophotographical films from the period 1890 -
1904, preserved by the Cinémathèque Française,
are now available to the public for the first time.
Both, book & DVD, make a fascinating reference and
should be available in all filmlibraries and private film
bookshelves of the avid pre-cinema & cinema collector,
historian or researcher.
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animate! book - Rethinking animation |
Edited
by Benjamin Cook and Gary Thomas. |
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the
animate! book - rethinking
animation.
animate!, the ground-breaking commissioning project established
by Arts Council England and Channel 4 which supports risk-taking
and experimental animation works for television, is the
focus of The animate! Book, just published by LUX in collaboration
with Arts Council England.
Since 1990 animate! has commissioned 84 dynamic and diverse
films including works from David Shrigley & Chris
Shepherd (Who I Am and What I Want), Run Wrake (Rabbit)
and AL + AL (Perpetual Motion in the Land of Milk and
Honey and Interstellar Stella), amongst others.
The animate! Book, illustrated with 870 full-colour film
images and graphics, explores the vibrant discourses round
the scheme, taking animate! as a starting point for a
wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between art
and animation, and the place of animation and its concepts
in contemporary art practice.
The book additionally comes with a DVD of ten films commissioned
by animate! representing the diversity of projects that
the project has supported. (Text
Source)
The book is published by LUX
and distrubuted Wallflower
Press
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Kubrick |
by
Martin Scorsese, Jan Harlan & others. |
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Stanley
Kubrick:
An exhibition of the Deutsches
Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main and Christiane
Kubrick/Stanley Kubrick Estate
Stanley Kubrick is one of
the most outstanding directors in film history. For the
first time worldwide, the Deutsches Filmmuseum presents
a major exhibition on his work.
In close co-operation with Christiane
Kubrick and his long-standing executive producer,
Jan Harlan, the inaccessible
estate of the director has been catalogued. For eight
months an archivist of the Deutsches Filmmuseum has been
researching at the estate at St. Albans, near London.
In a co-operation between Deutsches Filmmuseum and the
Deutsches Architektur Museum in Frankfurt am Main , the
Stanley Kubrick Exhibition was presented in Frankfurt
am Main as a world premiere from March 31 to July 04,
2004.
From October 5, 2006 to January 7, 2007 it is shown at
the Caermersklooster in Ghent.
In an area of about 1,200 square metres the exhibition
shows primary material from the Kubrick Archives: iconographic
items from all of his films, costumes, special effects
documentation, camera equipment and extensive working
and research documents. (Text from
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Cinema
Before Cinema: The Origins Of Scientific Cinematography
Virgilio Tosi
'Cinema Before Cinema' is one of the
most useful sources I ever came across. The book argues
that cinema began before the public screening of the Cinématographe
Lumière on 28 December 1895.
The reel origins of cinema can be found in the work of
early scientific experimenters such as Etienne-Jules Marey,
Georges Demeney, Jules Janssen, Albert Londe, Ottomar
Anschütz, Eadweard Muybridge, etc.
Originally this book was published in the Italian language
(1984), 'Il Cinema prima di Lumière'.
Initially accompanied with a video documentary, the current
English translation is accompanied by a DVD documentary.
(Although you need to order them
separately)
In addition to the original '84 version, the translation
is enriched with new research and insights.
'Cinema Before Cinema' is published by the British
Universities Film & Video Council
Click cover for more information.
See
also Routledge's Encyclopedia
of Early Cinema |
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