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Early Cinema: From Factory Gate to Dream Factory
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Product Description
arly Cinema: From Factory Gate to Dream Factory explores the period 1895 to 1914 when cinema emerged as the leading form of visual culture and established itself as a worldwide institution. This book introduces the student to the study of cinema as a series of aesthetic, technological, cultural, ideological and economic debates while exploring new and challenging approaches to the subject. The authors make use of the latest research in this field presenting both critical and practical advice for the student through a series of case studies.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #352332 in Books
- Published on: 2004-01-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 144 pages
Editorial Reviews
Ian Christie, Birkbeck College, London
Bring[s] new perspectives and rigour to the study of film and popular culture.
In the Picture
The book is excellent.
About the Author
Simon Popple is Principal Lecturer in Media History at the University of Teesside, and is joint editor of Living Pictures: The Journal of the Popular and Projected Image Before 1914. Joe Kember is Lecturer in Film Studies at the of University of Exeter and specialises in the study of late nineteenth-century popular entertainment and visual culture. He is also a contributor to The Cinema of David Lynch: American Dreams, Nightmare Visions (Wallflower Press, 2004).
