The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907

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University of California Press, 4 may 1994 - 613 páginas
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.
 

Índice

Introduction
1
Toward a History of Screen Practice
15
Thomas Edison and the Amusement World
65
Invention and Innovation
91
The Vitascope
139
The Proliferation of MotionPicture Companies and an Assessment
159
PART 3
191
109
216
18981901
267
PART 4
295
PART 5
415
Concluding Remarks
491
List of Abbreviations
497
Bibliography
529
Picture Sources
545
Index of Films
597

18971898
233

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Sobre el autor (1994)

Charles Musser is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Film Studies at Yale University and author of Before the Nickelodeon (California, 1990).

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