The emergence of cinema

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Glavni autor: Musser, Charles (-)
Vrsta građe: Knjiga
Jezik: eng
Impresum: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1994.
Nakladnička cjelina: History of the American cinema ; v. 1
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Sadržaj:
  • General preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Before cinema : 1. Toward a hitory of screen practice
  • 2. Thomas Edison and the amusement world
  • 3. Projecting motion pictures: invention and innovation
  • Part 2: The novelty of cinema: 1896-1897 : 4. The vitascope
  • 5. Early ,otion-picture companies
  • 6. The proliferation of motion-picture companies and an assessment of the novelty year
  • Part 3: The exhibitor plays a cretive role: 1897-1900 : 7. Full-lenght programs: fights, passion plays, and travel
  • 8. Commercial warfare and the Spanish American war: 1897-1898
  • 9. The film industry achieves modest stability: 1898-1901
  • Part 4: The production company assumes creative dominance: 1900-1905 : 10. A period of commercial crisis: 1900-1903
  • 11. The transition to story films: 1903-1904
  • 12. Cinema flourishes within its existing commercial framework: 1904-1905
  • Part 5: The beginnings of the Nickelodeon era: 1905-1907 : 13. Nickels count: storefront theatres: 1905-1907
  • 14. Production as the Nickelodeon era begins: 1905-1907
  • Concluding remarks
  • List of abbrevations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Picture sources
  • General index
  • Index of films