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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"early cinema"”.
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Vibrating Existence: Early Cinema and Cognitive Creativity
… how our perceptual and cognitive experience of cinema has changed diachronically and especially as a result of the transition from analogue to digital cinema projection. The slow arrival but sudden dominance of digital projection technology has provided a historic opportunity of renewed interest …
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The participatory potential of early cinema: a reexamination of early projected films
… formal qualities and historic context of three early films produced for the Edison Manufacturing Company by James White and Frederick Blechynden in 1897 titled Lurline Baths, Sutro Baths, and Sutro Baths, No. 1. It argues that the standard readings of early films posited by Tom Gunning and …
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Le regard et ses voltes : représentation et modélisation spectatorielle dans la production cinématographique des premiers temps
A study on various aspects of early cinema (modes of production, modes of exhibition, spectatorship, etc.). Etude de quelques aspects du cinéma des premiers temps.
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Stephen Crane and the Cinematic Spectacle of the New York Slums
… of the burgeoning technological revolution of cinema as popular art form. By my estimation, Crane's prose style is clearly influenced by early cinema particularly by its emphasis on spectacle and the episodic nature of the stories.</p>
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That's not what I heard : synchronized sound cinema in Montreal 1926-1931
… the introduction of synchronized sound cinema as a point of departure into a study of the cultural and social dimensions of moviegoing. This research focuses on Montreal between 1926 and 1931 where the first Canadian demonstrations and exhibitions of synchronized sound cinema took place. …
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All for One: What The Three Musketeers Can Teach Us About Adaptation
… children’s versions, playbills, and early cinema) and then moving to the screen. Screen versions will be analysed first generally through a historical overview with a subsequent chapter exploring the most influential versions. The final two chapters will look at the Musketeers in …
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Hypertextuality in the diegesis of the megamusical: the aesthetic and cognitive relationship between silent era film and contemporary musical theatre
… as a hypertextual performance form through which early cinema aesthetics can be seen and felt by spectators. The ‘closed fictional worlds’ (Slugan, 2021: 142) presented by silent fiction films made between 1895 and 1930 echo those of stage megamusicals by virtue of their joint musicality and …
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Fashion in Cinema: Reframing the Field
… my contribution to the field of fashion in cinema, and use the particular interdisciplinary scope of my work as a lens through which to reframe this field. As many have argued already, problems of fashion and costume in cinema have traditionally been overlooked and marginalised within cinema …
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Film Here Now: Daily Filmmaking and the Path to Well-being
… Edison and W. K. L. Dickson that dominated early cinema. Noël Burch’s theory of film, wherein films are analyzed as a combination of Institutional and Primitive Modes of Representation, provides the framework I use to contextualize my films in relation to the dominant visual aesthetic of …
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Beyond “Brutality”: understanding the Italian Filone’s violent excesses
… filmic continuities fundamental to mainstream cinema. This emphasis and the uneasy pleasures that it provides have led to a distinct ghettoisation of the filoni within English-language film criticism, with historical accounts of Italian cinema ignoring the films completely, dismissing them as …
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Katherine Mansfield and Visual Culture
… between Mansfield’s writing and modern art and cinema, this thesis will provide a wider context for this period of cultural history. I take a variety of technological advancements into account, examining they ways in which they collectively provided the inspiration behind modernist literature’s …
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A Media Archaeology of Technologies of Enchantment
This thesis explores how an understanding of an immaterial dimension of human experience was expressed and experienced in the context of nineteenth century engagement with science and technology. Drawing upon methods of media archaeology, it presents examples of visual technologies where apparatus …