| Description |
xii, 395 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 375-381. |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
Kinetoscope : fall motion picture production / Gordon Hendricks -- American Vitagraph, 1897-1901 : survival and success in a competitive industry / Charles Musser -- Images of Canada / Peter Morris -- In the beginning, 1896-1911 / Istvan Nemeskurty -- Australian silent films, 1904-1907 : The Features Begin / Eric Reade -- Yorkshire pioneers / Alan T. Sutherland -- Contra the Chaser theory / Robert C. Allen -- Hale's tours : ultrarealism in the pre-1910 motion picture / Raymond Fielding -- Edwin J. Hadley : traveling film exhibitor / Edward Lowry -- Vitascope / Cinematographe : initial patterns of American film industrial practice / Robert C. Allen -- Lumiere Organization and "documentary realism" / Alan Williams -- Motion picture exhibition in Manhattan, 1906-1912 : beyond the Nickelodeon / Robert C. Allen -- Copyright and early theater, vaudeville, and film competition / Jeanne Thomas Allen -- First picture shows : Austin, Texas, 1894-1913 / Burnes St. Patrick Hollyman -- First motion picture audiences / Garth S. Lowell -- Edison sales policy and the continuous action film, 1904-1906 / David Levy -- Cinema and the romantic tradition / John Hagan -- Alexander Black's picture plays, 1893-1894 / Burnes St. Patrick Hollyman -- George Melies and the Feerie / Katherine Singer Kovacs -- Paper prints of early motion pictures / Kemp R. Niver -- Imperialist iconography of Anglo-Boer War film footage / Elizabeth Grottle Strebel -- State of film narrative in 1907 / John L. Fell -- Early development of film form / Barry Salt -- Structural patterning in the Lumiere Films / Marshall Deutelbaum -- Temporality and narrativity in early cinema, 1895-1908 / Andre Gaudreault -- Toward narrative, 1907 : The mill girl / Eileen Bowser -- Lady vanishes : women, magic, and the movies / Lucy Fischer -- An unseen energy swallows space : space in early film and its relation to American avant-garde film / Tom Gunning -- Griffith's film career before The adventures of Dollie / Eileen Bowser. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- History.
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Motion picture industry -- History.
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Motion picture plays -- History and criticism.
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| Indexed Term |
Cinema films, to 1908 |
| Added Author |
Fell, John L., 1927-
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| ISBN |
0520047389 |
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0520047583 paperback |
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