{"product_id":"fantastic-voyages-of-the-cinematic-matthew-solomon-9781438435800","title":"Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination: Georges M駘i鑚's Trip to the Moon [With DVD]","description":"\"Best moving pictures I ever saw.\" Thus did one Vaudeville theater manager describe Georges M駘i鑚's \u003ci\u003eA Trip to the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e [Le Voyage dans la lune], after it was screened for enthusiastic audiences in October 1902. Cinema's first true blockbuster, A Trip to the Moon still inspires such superlatives and continues to be widely viewed on DVD, on the Internet, and in countless film courses. In \u003ci\u003eFantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, leading film scholars examine M駘i鑚's landmark film in detail, demonstrating its many crucial connecions to literature, popular culture, and visual culture of the time, as well as its long \"afterlife\" in more recent films, television, and music videos. Together, these essays make clear that M駘i鑚 was not only a major filmmaker but also a key figure in the emergence of modern spectacle and the birth of the modern cinematic imagination, and by bringing interdisciplinary methodologies of early cinema studies to bear on \u003ci\u003eA Trip to the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e, the contributors also open up much larger questions about aesthetics, media, and modernity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his introduction, Matthew Solomon traces the convoluted provenance of the film's multiple versions and its key place in the historiography of cinema, and an appendix contains a useful dossier of primary-source documents that contextualize the film's production, along with translations of two major articles written by M駘i鑚 himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Solomon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438435800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438435800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2011 pg. 181","brand":"Matthew Solomon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995693023487,"sku":"9781438435800","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c48d02d0-2187-41d3-95a5-188beee6049a.jpg?v=1683337283","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fantastic-voyages-of-the-cinematic-matthew-solomon-9781438435800","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}