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Early cinema : space-frame-narrative / edited by Thomas Elsaesser with Adam Barker.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : BFI Publishing, 1990.Description: [416]p. : ill. ; 23cmISBN:
  • 9780851702452:
  • 9780851702445:
  • 0851702449
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4309
Contents:
Early cinema : from linear history to mass media archaeology ; Early film form : articulations of space and time : introduction / Thomas Elsaesser -- Film form 1900-1906 / Barry Salt -- Deep staging in French films 1900-1914 / Ben Brewster -- The cinema of attractions : early films, its spectator and the avant-garde / Tom Gunning -- Let there be Lumïre / Dai Vaughan -- Film, narrative, narration : the cinema of the Lumïre Brothers / Andř Gaudreault -- From Lumïre to Patȟ : the break-up of perspectival space / Richard deCordova -- Non-continuity, continuity, discontinuity : a theory of genres in early films ; 'Primitive' cinema : a frame-up? or, the trick's on us / Tom Gunning.
Shots in the dark : the real origins of film editing / Stephen Bottomore -- The infringement of copyright laws and its effects (1900- 1906) / Andř Gaudreault -- The travel genre in 1903-1904 : moving towards fictional narrative / Charles Musser -- Detours in film narrative : the development of cross-cutting / Andř Gaudreault -- The institution cinema : industry, commodity, audience : introduction / Thomas Elsaesser -- Economic conditions of early cinema / Michael Chanan -- Combination and litigation : structures of US film distribution, 1896-1917 / Janet Staiger -- In the beginning was the word : six pre-Griffith motion picture scenarios / Patrick G. Loughney.
A primitive mode of representation? / No͡l Burch -- Early cinema : whose public sphere? / Miriam Hansen -- Some historical footnotes to the Kuleshov experiment / Yuri Tsivian -- The nickelodeon era begins : establishing the framework for Hollywood's mode of representation / Charles Musser -- Showing and telling : image and word in early cinema / Andř Gaudreault -- Silent films : what was the right speed? / Kevin Brownlow -- The continuity system : Griffith and beyond : introduction / Thomas Elsaesser and Adam Barker -- A scene at the 'movies' / Ben Brewster -- 'A properly adjusted window' : vision and sanity in D.W. Griffith's 1908-1909 biograph films / Anne Friedberg.
Weaving a narrative : style and economic background in Griffith's biograph films / Tom Gunning -- Griffith : the frame, the figure / Jacques Aumont -- To alternate/to narrate / Raymond Bellour -- Spatial and temporal articulation in pre-classical Swedish film / John Fullerton -- 'The student of Prague' : division and codification of space / Leon Hunt.
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General Lending Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending 791.4309 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 55468

Includes bibliography.

Early cinema : from linear history to mass media archaeology ; Early film form : articulations of space and time : introduction / Thomas Elsaesser -- Film form 1900-1906 / Barry Salt -- Deep staging in French films 1900-1914 / Ben Brewster -- The cinema of attractions : early films, its spectator and the avant-garde / Tom Gunning -- Let there be Lumïre / Dai Vaughan -- Film, narrative, narration : the cinema of the Lumïre Brothers / Andř Gaudreault -- From Lumïre to Patȟ : the break-up of perspectival space / Richard deCordova -- Non-continuity, continuity, discontinuity : a theory of genres in early films ; 'Primitive' cinema : a frame-up? or, the trick's on us / Tom Gunning.

Shots in the dark : the real origins of film editing / Stephen Bottomore -- The infringement of copyright laws and its effects (1900- 1906) / Andř Gaudreault -- The travel genre in 1903-1904 : moving towards fictional narrative / Charles Musser -- Detours in film narrative : the development of cross-cutting / Andř Gaudreault -- The institution cinema : industry, commodity, audience : introduction / Thomas Elsaesser -- Economic conditions of early cinema / Michael Chanan -- Combination and litigation : structures of US film distribution, 1896-1917 / Janet Staiger -- In the beginning was the word : six pre-Griffith motion picture scenarios / Patrick G. Loughney.

A primitive mode of representation? / No͡l Burch -- Early cinema : whose public sphere? / Miriam Hansen -- Some historical footnotes to the Kuleshov experiment / Yuri Tsivian -- The nickelodeon era begins : establishing the framework for Hollywood's mode of representation / Charles Musser -- Showing and telling : image and word in early cinema / Andř Gaudreault -- Silent films : what was the right speed? / Kevin Brownlow -- The continuity system : Griffith and beyond : introduction / Thomas Elsaesser and Adam Barker -- A scene at the 'movies' / Ben Brewster -- 'A properly adjusted window' : vision and sanity in D.W. Griffith's 1908-1909 biograph films / Anne Friedberg.

Weaving a narrative : style and economic background in Griffith's biograph films / Tom Gunning -- Griffith : the frame, the figure / Jacques Aumont -- To alternate/to narrate / Raymond Bellour -- Spatial and temporal articulation in pre-classical Swedish film / John Fullerton -- 'The student of Prague' : division and codification of space / Leon Hunt.

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