Film 1900 e-bog
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Essays examining the relationships between culture, film, and the audience around the turn of the twentieth century.The current digital revolution has sparked a renewed interest in the origins and trajectory of modern media, particularly in the years around 1900 when the technology was rapidly developing. This collection aims to broaden our understanding of early cinema as a significant innovat...
E-bog
127,71 DKK
Forlag
John Libbey Publishing
Udgivet
5 oktober 2009
Genrer
3JH
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780861969166
Essays examining the relationships between culture, film, and the audience around the turn of the twentieth century.The current digital revolution has sparked a renewed interest in the origins and trajectory of modern media, particularly in the years around 1900 when the technology was rapidly developing. This collection aims to broaden our understanding of early cinema as a significant innovation in media history. Joining traditional scholarship with fresh insights from a variety of disciplines, this book explains the aesthetic and institutional characteristics in early cinema within the context of the contemporary media landscape. It also addresses transcultural developments such as scientific revolutions, industrialization, urbanization, and globalization, as well as differing attitudes toward modernization. Film 1900 is an important reassessment of early cinema's position in cultural history."e;The capable Ligensa and Kreimeier invited a coterie of renowned Continental scholars and thinkers to reflect on issues of modernity and cinema by harking back to the fin de siecle. . . . Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty."e; -T. Lindval, Choice