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Beyond the screen : institutions, networks and publics of early cinema /
The visionaries of early motion pictures thought that movies could do more than just entertain. They imagined the medium had the potential to educate and motivate the audience. In national and local contexts from Europe, North America, and around the world, early filmmakers entered the domains of sc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés Alemán |
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New Barnet, Herts, U.K. : Bloomington, IN :
John Libbey Pub. Ltd. ; Distributed in North America by Indiana University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Early Cinema in Review: Proceedings of Domitor.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; PART I: Charity and Religion ; 1. "Neutrality-Humanity": The Humanitarian Mission and the Films of the American Red Cross ; 2. Early Missionary Filming and the Emergence of the Professional Camera man ; 3. Mission on Screen: the Church Army and its Multi-Media Activities ; 4. "Baits to Entrap the Pleasure-Seeker and the Worldling": Charity Bazaars Introduce Moving Pictures to Irela nd ; 5. Paroles éducatives et religieuses lors des projections de films en France avant 1915.
- 6. Mütter, verzaget nicht! (1911) [Mothers, Despair Not!]: Henny Porten's Promotion for Mothers' Welfare PART II: Government and Civics ; 7. The Tsar and The Kinemat ograph: Film as History and The Chronicle of the Russian Monarchy ; 8. "Wheelbarrows" and "Real Soldiers": Advertising, Audiences and War Films of all Varieties ; 9. "What is a Picture?": Film as Defined in British Law Before 1910 ; 10. Le cinéma et les élections au Québec: de l'attraction à la banalité ; 11. A Moving Picture Farce: Public Opinion and the Beginnings of Film Censorship in Quebec.
- PART III: Education and Advocacy 12. Health Instruction on Screen: The Department of Health in New York City, 1909-1917 ; 13. John Collier, Thomas Edison and the Educational Promotion of Moving Pictures ; 14. "And They Can See Half-Naked Dancers, Catching Young Men In Their Nets": Teachers and the Cinema in Norway, 1907-1913 ; 15. Documentaries, Family Film Nights and the First Film University: The Early Works and Big Ideas of Belgian Film Pioneer Hippolyte De Kempeneer (1876-1944) ; PART IV: Science and Magic.
- 16. The School of the Future or Ganot's Physics?: Edison's Foray into Educational Cinema 17. Multi-Purposing Early Cinema: A Psychological Experiment Involving Van Bibber's Experiment (Edison, 1911) ; 18. Dissecting the Medical Training Film ; 19. Corporal Permeability and Shadow Pictures: Reconsidering Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (1902) ; 20. Eroticism and Death: The Skeleton in the Trick Film ; 21. Magies en images, les prestidigitateurs et la machine ; PART V: Art and Aesthetics ; 22. Early Film Colour, Today and Yesterday.
- 23. Salvage Ethnography and the Exoticisation of Decay in Peter Delpeut's Lyrical Nitrate and Bill Morrison's Decasia 24. Picture Craft, Visual Education and the Lantern: A Lecture Fantasy ; 25. The Scope of Those Scopes: Production Diversity for the Mutoscope and Biograph During the Movies' Early Years ; 26. The High-Stakes History of the French Camera Operators' Union before the First World War ; PART VI: Exhibition and Showmanship ; 27. Les séries culturelles de la conférence-avec-projection et de la projection-avec-boniment: continuités et ruptures.