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    American Cinema 1890-1909
    Themes and Variations

    Andre Gaudreault (Edited by)

    9780813544434

    Paperback / softback, published 13 January 2009

    288 pages, 33
    23.5 x 15.6 x 1.5 cm, 0.482 kg

    "This impressive volume—all of it immensely readable, fascinating, and coherent—leads one to appreciate the breadth and scope of global cinema. Gaudreault and his talented contributors provided a fresh, lively, informative, engaging chronological survey of the first decades of American film. Highly recommended."
    — CHOICE

    "There is nothing like this series. Screen Decades firmly situates American cinema in the realms of material culture, popular culture, cultural narrative, reception analysis, and industrial history."

    — American Quarterly

    At the turn of the twentieth century, cinema was quickly establishing itself as a legitimate form of popular entertainment.

    The essays in American Cinema 1890-1909 explore and define how the making of motion pictures flowered into an industry that would finally become the central entertainment institution of the world. Beginning with all the early types of pictures that moved, this volume tells the story of the invention and consolidation of the various processes that gave rise to what we now call "cinema." By examining the battles over patents, production, exhibition, and the reception of film, readers learn how going to the movies became a social tradition in American society.

    In the course of these two decades, cinema succeeded both in establishing itself among other entertainment and instructional media and in updating various forms of spectacle.

    American cinema emerges (1890-1909) / Andre Gaudreault, Tom Gunning
    1890-1895: movies and the kinetoscope / Paul C. Spehr
    1896-1897: movies and the beginnings of cinema / Charles Musser
    1898-1899: movies and entrepreneurs / Patrick Loughney
    1900-1901: movies, new imperialism, and the new century / Jean-Pierre Sirois-Trahan
    1902-1903: movies, stories, and attractions / Tom Gunning
    1904-1905: movies and chasing the missing link(s) / Andre Gaudreault
    1906: movies and spectacle / Lauren Rabinovitz
    1907: movies and the expansion of the audience / Eileen Bowser
    1908: movies and other media / Matthew Solomon
    1909: movies and progress / Jennifer M. Bean
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