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The dream that kicks : the prehistory and early years of cinema in Britain /

The Dream the Kicks is a classic account of the prehistory and early years of cinema in Britain. In this new paperback edition, which has been thoroughly revised to take into account recent scholarship of early cinema, Michael Chanan provides a fasciniating account of the rich and hitherto hidden hi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chanan, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003, ©1996.
Edición:2nd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Author's note (first edition); Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgements; The site of film; The sight of film; The conditions of invention; Theories of perception; Photographic development; Patent business; Celluloid muse; The production of consumption; Music hall and popular culture; Culture and politics in the middle classes; Market competition and industrial growth; The foundations of the film idiom; Epilogue: The dream that kicks; Bibliography; Index