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Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Dramatic Mirror of Motion Pictures and the Stage
Author: Dramatic Mirror of the Stage and Motion Pictures
Author: The New York Dramatic Mirror
Author: Dramatic Mirror and Theatre World
Author: Postnaturalism
Author: Shane DensonPublisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839428173
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
»Postnaturalism« offers an original account of human-technological co-evolution and argues that film and media theory, in particular, needs to be re-evaluated from the perspective of our material interfaces with a constantly changing environment. Extrapolating from Frankenstein films and the resonances they establish between a hybrid monster and the spectator hooked into the machinery of the cinema, Shane Denson engages debates in science studies and philosophy of technology to rethink histories of cinema, media, technology, and ultimately of the affective channels of our own embodiment. With a foreword by media theorist Mark B. N. Hansen.
The American Theatrical Film
Author: John C. TibbettsPublisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879722890
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book provides needed information on the collaborations between filmmakers and theater personnel before 1930 and completes our understanding of how two art forms influenced each other. It begins with the vaudeville and "faerie" dramas captured in brief films by the Edison and Biograph companies; follows the development of feature-length Sarah Bernhardt and James O'Neill films after 1912; examines the formation of theater/film combination companies in 1914-15; and details later collaborations during the talking picture revolution of 1927. Includes detailed analyses of important theatrical films like The Count of Monte Cristo, The Virginian, Coquette, and Paramount on Parade.
A Guide to Serial Publications Founded Prior to 1918 and Now Or Recently Current in Boston, Cambridge, and Vicinity
Author: Thomas Johnston HomerPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
A Guide to Serial Publications Founded Prior to 1918 and Now Or Recently Current in Boston, Cambridge, and Vicinity
Author: Thomas J. HomerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Theatre to Cinema
Author: Ben BrewsterPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198182672
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
On the relationship between early cinema and 19th century theatre.
Stagestruck Filmmaker
Author: David MayerPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587298406
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
An actor, a vaudevillian, and a dramatist before he became a filmmaker, D. W. Griffith used the resources of theatre to great purpose and to great ends. In pioneering the quintessentially modern medium of film from the 1890s to the 1930s, he drew from older, more broadly appealing stage forms of melodrama, comedy, vaudeville, and variety. In Stagestruck Filmmaker, David Mayer brings Griffith’s process vividly to life, offering detailed and valuable insights into the racial, ethnic, class, and gender issues of these transitional decades. Combining the raw materials of theatre, circus, minstrelsy, and dance with the newer visual codes of motion pictures, Griffith became the first acknowledged artist of American film. Birth of a Nation in particular demonstrates the degree to which he was influenced by the racist justifications and distorting interpretations of the Civil War and the Reconstruction era. Moving through the major phases of Griffith’s career in chapters organized around key films or groups of films, Mayer provides a mesmerizing account of the American stage and cinema in the final years of the nineteenth century and the first three decades of the twentieth century. Griffith’s relationship to the theatre was intricate, complex, and enduring. Long recognized as the dominant creative figure of American motion pictures, throughout twenty-six years of making more than five hundred films he pillaged, adapted, reshaped, revitalized, preserved, and extolled. By historicizing his representations of race, ethnicity, and otherness, Mayer places Griffith within an overall template of American life in the years when film rivaled and then surpassed the theatre in popularity.