Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 (History of the American Cinema) - Softcover

Musser

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520085337 ISBN 13: 9780520085336

Publisher: University of California Press, 2005

Synopsis

The origins of motion picture technologies are described and analyzed by Charles Musser in this lavishly illustrated volume. He considers social and economic as well as aesthetic aspects of the beginnings of movie making.

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Review:

"Massively detailed, scrupulously and exhaustively researched, copiously graphed and illustrated, heavily footnoted, examining each period from several critical and sociological perspectives, these three books are perfectly representative, in many ways, of the state of academic film research today."--Michael Wilmington, "Los Angeles Times Book Review

From the Back Cover:

From the beginnings of cinema through the first boom in the specialized moving-picture theaters known as nickelodeons, The Emergence of Cinema looks at the first twelve years of projected motion pictures and their aural accompaniment. Early American cinema is examined as an industry and as an influential cultural practice in the context of a centuries-long history of projected images.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0520085337
• ISBN 13: 9780520085336
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 638