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"This collection of essays by early cinema scholars from Europe and North America offers manifold perspectives on early cinema fiction which perfectly reflect the state of international research."
- Martin Loiperdinger, Universitaet Trier
"A fabulous selection of first-rate articles!"
- Rick Altman, University of Iowa
"One of the most challenging books in recent film studies: in it, early cinema is both a historical object and a contemporary presence. As in a great novel, we can retrace the adventures of the past - the films, styles, discourses, and receptions that made cinema the breakthrough reality it was in its first decades. But we can also come to appreciate how much of this reality is still present in our digital world."
- Francesco Casetti, Yale University
A Companion to Early Cinema is an authoritative reference on the field of early cinema. Its 30 peer-reviewed chapters offer cutting-edge research and original perspectives on the major concerns in early cinema studies, and take an ambitious look at ideas and themes that will lead discussions about early cinema into the future.
Including work by both established and up-and-coming scholars in early cinema, film theory, and film history, this will be the definitive volume on early cinema history for years to come and a must-have reference for all those working in the field.
Author: André Gaudreault
ISBN-10: 1444332317
ISBN-13: 9781444332315
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 07/02/2012
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.80lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.90w x 1.30d
Andr? Gaudreault is Professor in Film Studies at the Universit? de Montr?al, where he heads the research group GRAFICS (Groupe de recherche sur l'av?nement et la formation des institutions cin?matographique et sc?nique). He is also director of the bilingual journal Cin?mas, published in Montreal. He has presented numerous scholarly papers and published extensively on film narration and early cinema.
Nicolas Dulac is Lecturer in Film Studies at the Universit? de Montr?al. He has published on early cinema and turn-of-the-century popular culture in journals such as 1895 Revue d'Histoire du Cin?ma, Cinema & Cie, and Early Popular Visual Culture.
Santiago Hidalgo is Lecturer in Film Studies at the Universit? de Montr?al. He has published on early cinema, film criticism, and film historiography in Cin?mas and in conference proceedings for events in Udine, Italy and Cerisy, France.
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