Reading the Cinematograph by Andrew Shail
The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story. This book studies the relationship between popular magazine short stories and the very early British films. It pairs eight intriguing short stories on cinema with eight new essays unveiling the rich documentary value of the original fiction and using the stories as touchstones for a discussion of the popular culture of the period during which cinema first developed. The short stories are by authors ranging from the notable (Rudyard Kipling and Sax Rohmer) to the unknown (Raymond Rayne and Mrs. H.J. Bickle); their endearing tributes to the new cinematograph chart its development from unintentional witness to entertainment institution.-
The Great Art Of Light And Shadow
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Alternative Film Culture in Interwar Britain
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The Holocaust and Hollywood Studios
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Finding Birt Acres
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Going to the Movies
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The B&C Kinematograph Company and British Cinema
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Silent Features
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Picturegoers
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Screening Europe in Australasia
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The World According To Hollywood,1918-1939
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Young And Innocent?
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Multimedia Histories
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British Cinema and Middlebrow Culture in the Interwar Years
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Charles Urban
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Hollywood, Westerns And The 1930S
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The Lost Jungle
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Marketing Modernity
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The Appreciation of Film
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Celluloid War Memorials
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Decoding the Movies
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Bill Douglas
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Film, Cinema, Genre
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Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain
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The Big Show
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John Hamrick’s Blue Mouse Cinemas
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Cecil Hepworth and the Rise of the British Film Industry 1899-1911
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The Screen Censorship Companion
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A Chorus Of Raspberries
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Legitimate Cinema
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'Film Europe' and 'Film America'
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Cinema on the Front Line
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Parallel Tracks
… the volume sustains an unbroken fascination with the wider implications of emergent cinematic technologies and modes of representationIt accurately reflects the widely felt cultural significances that were attributed to moving pictures and therefore will be valuable reading for cultural historians of the period as well as historians of cinema.
* Victorian Studies *
Andrew Shail is Lecturer in Film at Newcastle University.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780859898546 |
| ISBN 10 | 0859898547 |
| Title | Reading the Cinematograph |
| Author | Andrew Shail |
| Series | Exeter Studies In Film History |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Exeter |
| Year published | 2011-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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