Early Cinema: From Factory Gate to Dream Factory

by Simon Popple, Joe Kember

Overview

This book introduces the reader 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 explores the period 1895 to 1914 when cinema established itself as the leading form of visual culture among rapidly expanding global media, emerging from a rich tradition of scientific, economic, entertainment and educational practices and quickly developing as a worldwide institution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781903364581
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	03/24/2004
Series:	Short Cuts
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Simon Popple is Principal Lecturer in Media History at the University of Teesside, and is joint editor of Living Pictures: The Journal of the Popular and Projected Image Before 1914.Joe Kember is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Teesside and specializes in the study of late nineteenth-century popular entertainment and visual culture.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Cinema 1895–1914
2. Approaches to Early Cinema
3. The Uses of Cinema
4. Exhibition and Reception
5. Film Form: Genre and Narrative
Notes
Sources and Resources
Glossary
Bibliography