Living pictures the origins of the movies
This is the first book in English in nearly half a century to tell the full story of the international development of the first films, the origins of celluloid itself, the background of magic lantern shows (which were the first home of the movies), and the social influences on movie inventors and th...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press
1998.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3216094x*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1. Introduction
- Ch. 2. The Moving Image in the Nineteenth Century
- Ch. 3. Approaching Cinema: The Chronophotographers
- Ch. 4. The Search for a Material: The Development of Celluloid
- Ch. 5. Shaping the Future: Thomas Alva Edison and the Kinetoscope
- Ch. 6. Seeking an Answer: Out of the Lantern Tradition
- Ch. 7. Multiple Questions: The Many Cinemas of 1896-1900.
