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Author | : Bryony Dixon |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2023-08-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1911239643 |
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In this vivid and accessible new account of the dawn of film in Britain, internationally respected film historian and curator Bryony Dixon introduces us to Britain's first cinematic pioneers an eclectic mix of chemists, engineers, photography enthusiasts, fairground showmen and magicians who in a few short years built a vibrant new industry. As she chronicles the emergence of the first embryonic film forms and genres, she reveals often surprising innovations, from cutting-edge science to ingeniously witty tricks and comedies, with filmmakers reflecting existing entertainment forms as well as advancing editing and cinematography in ways that shaped the art of film for many decades after. Dixon offers fresh insights by focusing on the films themselves many of them only recently available to view while building on the work of generations of scholars. In the process, Dixon makes a compelling case for the British filmmakers of the era as inventive and creative figures, every bit as influential as their more celebrated contemporaries in France and the US.
Author | : Bryony Dixon |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2023-08-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1911239635 |
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In this vivid and accessible new account of the dawn of film in Britain, internationally respected film historian and curator Bryony Dixon introduces us to Britain's first cinematic pioneers – an eclectic mix of chemists, engineers, photography enthusiasts, fairground showmen and magicians – who in a few short years built a vibrant new industry. As she chronicles the emergence of the first embryonic film forms and genres, she reveals often surprising innovations, from cutting-edge science to ingeniously witty tricks and comedies, with filmmakers reflecting existing entertainment forms as well as advancing editing and cinematography in ways that shaped the art of film for many decades after. Dixon offers fresh insights by focusing on the films themselves – many of them only recently available to view – while building on the work of generations of scholars. In the process, Dixon makes a compelling case for the British filmmakers of the era as inventive and creative figures, every bit as influential as their more celebrated contemporaries in France and the US.
Author | : Abigail Burnham Bloom |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781604977868 |
Download Victorian Literature and Film Adaptation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Movies began during the Victorian age. Through even the earliest years of filmmaking, Victorian literature provided a ready stock of familiar stories about colorful characters caught up in mystery, fantasy, adventure, sensation, and domestic conflict. Among the earliest films are adaptations of works by Victorian writers like Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, and even Alfred, Lord Tennyson. With the proliferation of volumes on adaptation, work is needed that provides theoretical and practical approaches for those who think about literature together with film adaptations whether as scholarship, part of classroom study, or general enjoyment. By bringing together many different approaches to the topic of adaptation, this book provides an important overview of the subject of the adaptation of nineteenth-century British literature, as well as an examination of the constructive and creative use of film adaptations in the classroom. Although a wide range of critical approaches are included, the primary emphasis is on what specific adaptations reveal about the ways in which nineteenth-century British texts are understood, responded to, and analyzed based on particular cultural contexts. This book provides a basis for rethinking adaptation and a template for future discussions and academic courses. They orient the reader within a popular field of study that is currently in need of both greater focus and of practical direction.
Author | : Stephen Herbert |
Publisher | : BFI Publishing |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : |
Download Who's who of Victorian Cinema Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Lives of over 250 people involved in history of cinema
Author | : Nora Gilbert |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2013-01-09 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0804784876 |
Download Better Left Unsaid Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Better Left Unsaid is in the unseemly position of defending censorship from the central allegations that are traditionally leveled against it. Taking two genres generally presumed to have been stymied by the censor's knife—the Victorian novel and classical Hollywood film—this book reveals the varied ways in which censorship, for all its blustery self-righteousness, can actually be good for sex, politics, feminism, and art. As much as Victorianism is equated with such cultural impulses as repression and prudery, few scholars have explored the Victorian novel as a "censored" commodity—thanks, in large part, to the indirectness and intangibility of England's literary censorship process. This indirection stands in sharp contrast to the explicit, detailed formality of Hollywood's infamous Production Code of 1930. In comparing these two versions of censorship, Nora Gilbert explores the paradoxical effects of prohibitive practices. Rather than being ruined by censorship, Victorian novels and Hays Code films were stirred and stimulated by the very forces meant to restrain them.
Author | : Simone Natale |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2016-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0271077395 |
Download Supernatural Entertainments Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Supernatural Entertainments, Simone Natale vividly depicts spiritualism’s rise as a religious and cultural phenomenon and explores its strong connection to the growth of the media entertainment industry in the nineteenth century. He frames the spiritualist movement as part of a new commodity culture that changed how public entertainments were produced and consumed. Starting with the story of the Fox sisters, considered the first spiritualist mediums in history, Natale follows the trajectory of spiritualism in Great Britain and the United States from its foundation in 1848 to the beginning of the twentieth century. He demonstrates that spiritualist mediums and leaders adopted many of the promotional strategies and spectacular techniques that were being developed for the broader entertainment industry. Spiritualist mediums were indistinguishable from other professional performers, as they had managers and agents, advertised in the press, and used spectacularism to draw audiences. Addressing the overlap between spiritualism’s explosion and nineteenth-century show business, Natale provides an archaeology of how the supernatural became a powerful force in the media and popular culture of today.
Author | : Dave Thompson |
Publisher | : ECW Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2010-12-14 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1554903025 |
Download Black and White and Blue Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Until now, there was no modern history of the pornographic movie available - Black and White and Blue fills that void, with exlusive interviews and confrontational style.
Author | : Kate Flint |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download Victorian Love Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Thirty-two stories, mostly dating from the 1880s and later, originally published in magazines.
Author | : Mike Stocks |
Publisher | : Usborne Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 2013-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1409569195 |
Download Victorian Horror Stories: Usborne Classics Retold Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Six terrifying tales from the Victorian age thrillingly retold for today's readers.
Author | : Dennis Denisoff |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2004-05-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1551113562 |
Download The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories beautifully demonstrates the astonishing variety and ingenuity of Victorian short stories. This collection brings together works focused on a wide range of popular Victorian subjects in many different styles and forms (including comic, gothic, fantasy, adventure, and colonial works; science fiction; children’s tales; New Woman writing; Irish yarns; stories originally published in popular periodicals; and travel stories). Both well-known and lesser-known authors are included, and both men and women are well represented. This anthology includes twenty-six annotated stories, a general introduction that discusses the history of the genre’s development in relation to key socio-political issues of the Victorian era, and suggestions for secondary readings. It also includes an intriguing selection of Victorian writings on the genre by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Frederick Wedmore, and Laura Marholm Hansson.