Early American Cinema
Author | : Anthony Slide |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780810827226 |
Provides a concise history of the American motion picture industry before 1920.
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Author | : Anthony Slide |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780810827226 |
Provides a concise history of the American motion picture industry before 1920.
Author | : Charlie Keil |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2001-12-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0299173631 |
The period 1907–1913 marks a crucial transitional moment in American cinema. As moving picture shows changed from mere novelty to an increasingly popular entertainment, fledgling studios responded with longer running times and more complex storytelling. A growing trade press and changing production procedures also influenced filmmaking. In Early American Cinema in Transition, Charlie Keil looks at a broad cross-section of fiction films to examine the formal changes in cinema of this period and the ways that filmmakers developed narrative techniques to suit the fifteen-minute, one-reel format. Keil outlines the kinds of narratives that proved most suitable for a single reel’s duration, the particular demands that time and space exerted on this early form of film narration, and the ways filmmakers employed the unique features of a primarily visual medium to craft stories that would appeal to an audience numbering in the millions. He underscores his analysis with a detailed look at six films: The Boy Detective; The Forgotten Watch; Rose O’Salem-Town; Cupid’s Monkey Wrench; Belle Boyd, A Confederate Spy; and Suspense.
Author | : Giorgio Bertellini |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0253221285 |
Giorgio Bertellini traces the origins of American cinema's century-long fascination with Italy and Italian immigrants to the popularity of the pre-photographic aesthetic—the picturesque. Once associated with landscape painting in northern Europe, the picturesque came to symbolize Mediterranean Europe through comforting views of distant landscapes and exotic characters. Taking its cue from a picturesque stage backdrop from The Godfather Part II, Italy in Early American Cinema shows how this aesthetic was transferred from 19th-century American painters to early 20th-century American filmmakers. Italy in Early American Cinema offers readings of early films that pay close attention to how landscape representations that were related to narrative settings and filmmaking locations conveyed distinct ideas about racial difference and national destiny.
Author | : Jan-Christopher Horak |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780299146849 |
Historians and students of American avant-garde cinema often overlook the films of the 1920s through the early 1940s, considering them mere derivatives of their European counterparts. In fact, the American films possess an eclecticism, innovation, and naivete all their own. Marshaling his broad cinematic and cultural knowledge, editor Jan-Christopher Horak has compiled in Lovers of Cinema a ground-breaking group of articles on this neglected film period. With one exception, all are original to this volume, and many are the first to treat comprehensively such early filmmakers as Mary Ellen Bute, Theodore Huff, and Douglass Crockwell.
Author | : André Gaudreault |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 2012-07-02 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1444332317 |
An authoritative and much-needed overview of the main issues in the field of early cinema from over 30 leading international scholars in the field First collection of its kind to offer in one reference: original theory, new research, and reviews of existing studies in the field Features over 30 original essays from some of the leading scholars in early cinema and Film Studies, including Tom Gunning, Jane Gaines, Richard Abel, Thomas Elsaesser, and André Gaudreault Caters to renewed interest in film studies’ historical methods, with strict analysis of multiple and competing sources, providing a critical re-contextualization of films, printed material and technologies Covers a range of topics in early cinema, such as exhibition, promotion, industry, pre-cinema, and film criticism Broaches the latest research on the subject of archival practices, important particularly in the current digital context
Author | : Jeanine Basinger |
Publisher | : Rizzoli International Publications |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
This extraordinary book--published to commemorate the centennial celebration of the birth of American film and a 10-part PBS-TV series scheduled for the new year--surveys the phenomenon that is Hollywood, past and present. With more than 200 illustrations, 100 in full color, and including some never before published, this book celebrates the best of American films.
Author | : Charlie Keil |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0813544459 |
It was during the teens that filmmaking truly came into its own. Notably, the migration of studios to the West Coast established a connection between moviemaking and the exoticism of Hollywood. The essays in American Cinema of the 1910s explore the rapid developments of the decade that began with D. W. Griffith's unrivaled one-reelers. By mid-decade, multi-reel feature films were profoundly reshaping the industry and deluxe theaters were built to attract the broadest possible audience. Stars like Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks became vitally important and companies began writing high-profile contracts to secure them. With the outbreak of World War I, the political, economic, and industrial groundwork was laid for American cinema's global dominance. By the end of the decade, filmmaking had become a true industry, complete with vertical integration, efficient specialization and standardization of practices, and self-regulatory agencies.
Author | : Gary Don Rhodes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Ireland |
ISBN | : 9780716531432 |
This title provides a history of pre-cinema and the Irish in America and features over 100 previously unseen photographs. The book provides an account of the audiences for Irish-themed films as well as a history of the Irish-themed film production in America during the early cinema period.
Author | : André Gaudreault |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0813544432 |
The essays in American Cinema 1890-1909 explore and define how the making of motion pictures flowered into an industry that would finally become the central entertainment institution of the world. Beginning with all the early types of pictures that moved, this volume tells the story of the invention and consolidation of the various processes that gave rise to what we now call "cinema."
Author | : Lucy Fischer |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2009-04-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0813547156 |
During the 1920s, sound revolutionized the motion picture industry and cinema continued as one of the most significant and popular forms of mass entertainment in the world. Film studios were transformed into major corporations, hiring a host of craftsmen and technicians including cinematographers, editors, screenwriters, and set designers. The birth of the star system supported the meteoric rise and celebrity status of actors including Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, and Rudolph Valentino while black performers (relegated to "race films") appeared infrequently in mainstream movies. The classic Hollywood film style was perfected and significant film genres were established: the melodrama, western, historical epic, and romantic comedy, along with slapstick, science fiction, and fantasy. In ten original essays, American Cinema of the 1920s examines the film industry's continued growth and prosperity while focusing on important themes of the era.