Author: Charles Urban Trading Co., LtdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
List of Urban Film Subjects
Author: Charles Urban Trading Co., LtdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Charles Urban
Author: Luke McKernanPublisher: Royal College of General Practitioners
ISBN: 0859899853
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Based on original research from Charles Urban’s own papers, this is the first biography of this influential film maker and innovator. It is also a historical study of the development of the non-fiction film in Britain and America in the early years of cinema, told through the experiences of the leading pioneer of the form. Charles Urban was a renowned figure in his time, and he has remained a name in film history chiefly for his development of Kinemacolor, the world’s first successful natural colour moving picture system. He was also a pioneer in the filming of war, science, travel, actuality and news, a fervent advocate of the value of film as an educative force, and a controversial but important innovator of film propaganda in wartime. The book uses Urban’s story as a means of showing how the non-fiction film developed in the period 1897-1925, and the dilemmas that it faced within a cinema culture in which the entertainment fiction film was dominant. Urban’s solutions – some successful, some less so – illustrate the groundwork that led to the development of documentary film. The book considers the roles of film as informer, educator and generator of propaganda, and the social and aesthetic function of colour in the years when cinema was still working out what it was capable of and how best to reach audiences. Luke McKernan also curates a web resource on Charles Urban at www.charlesurban.com Winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award 2014.
The Cinematographic Activities of Charles Rider Noble and John Mackenzie in the Balkans (Volume One)
Author: Peter Ivanov KardjilovPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527550737
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
In the early 20th century, the American film producer Charles Urban, who had founded his company in London, sent two of his camera operators out to the Balkans. The Englishman Charles Rider Noble recreated moments from the uprising that had broken out in Macedonia (part of Turkey at that time) and filmed all over Bulgaria, while the Scot John Mackenzie travelled through Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania. As such, thanks to these two Britons, the first sequences of living pictures were filmed in the peninsula from 1903 to 1905. This book deals with this under-researched period, examining in depth, diligently and in detail over 1,200 sources of information (including newspaper reports, film catalogues, and archives). It will appeal to anyone who loves the ‘Seventh Art’ and adores the secrets its early history still holds.
Catalogue of the Book Library of the British Film Institute, London, England: Subject catalogue. Alphabetical subject index
Author: British Film Institute. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Devices of Curiosity
Author: Oliver GayckenPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199860688
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
4e de couv.: Beginning around 1903, a variety of producers began making films about scientific topics for general audiences, inspired by a vision of cinema as an educational medium. Excavating this largely unknown genre of early cinema, Devices of curiosity traces its development from its beginnings in England to its flourishing in France around 1910. Oliver Gaycken investigates how such films both relied upon previous traditions and created novel visual paradigms that led to the creation of ambitious new film collections. Gaycken also discerns a transit between nonfictional and fictional modes, seeing affinities between popular-science films and certain aspects of fiction films, particularly Louis Feuillade's crime melodramas. Drawing on the insights of the history of science as well as the history of cinema, Devices of curiosity reveals the extent to which popular-science films impacted the formation of documentary, educational, and avant-garde cinemas.
Catalogue of the Book Library of the British Film Institute, London, England: Title catalogue, G-Z. Script catalogue. Subject catalogue. Personality index. Film index
Author: British Film Institute. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
The Urban Generation
Author: Zhen ZhangPublisher: Duke University Press Books
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
DIVAn anthology that explores film works by the "urban generation,"--filmmakers who operate outside of "mainstream" (officially sanctioned) Chinese cinema -- whose impact has been enormous./div
Cinema and the City
Author: Mark ShielPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 144439973X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This book brings together the literature of urban sociology and film studies to explore new analytical and theoretical approaches to the relationship between cinema and the city, and to show how these impact on the realities of life in urban societies.
Evolution and Victorian Culture
Author: Bernard V. LightmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139992309
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
In this collection of essays from leading scholars, the dynamic interplay between evolution and Victorian culture is explored for the first time, mapping new relationships between the arts and sciences. Rather than focusing simply on evolution and literature or art, this volume brings together essays exploring the impact of evolutionary ideas on a wide range of cultural activities including painting, sculpture, dance, music, fiction, poetry, cinema, architecture, theatre, photography, museums, exhibitions and popular culture. Broad-ranging, rather than narrowly specialized, each chapter provides a brief introduction to key scholarship, a central section exploring original insights drawn from primary source material, and a conclusion offering overarching principles and a projection towards further areas of research. Each chapter covers the work of significant individuals and groups applying evolutionary theory to their particular art, both as theorists and practitioners. This comprehensive examination of topics sheds light on larger and previously unknown Victorian cultural patterns.
Catalogue of the Book Library of the British Film Institute, London, England: Author catalogue. Title catalogue, A-F
Author: British Film Institute. LibraryPublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description