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Making Movies into Art: Picture Craft from the Magic Lantern to Early Hollywood
Kaveh Askari
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Description for Making Movies into Art: Picture Craft from the Magic Lantern to Early Hollywood
Hardback. This fascinating study charts the emergence of American cinema, from pre-cinematic entertainment in the 1890s to early Hollywood. Providing valuable new perspectives on the history of film as art, Kaveh Askari explores how these early forms of cinema related to the visual arts, new arts education theories and other social changes of the time. Series: Cultural Histories of Cinema. Num Pages: 182 pages. BIC Classification: 1K; APFA; APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 442.
Focusing on early cinema's relationship with the pictorial arts, this pioneering study explores how cinema's emergence was grounded in theories of picture composition, craft and arts education – from magic lantern experiments in 1890s New York through to early Hollywood feature films in the 1920s.
Challenging received notions that the advent of cinema was a celebration of mechanisation and a radical rejection of nineteenth-century traditions of representation, Kaveh Askari instead emphasises the overlap between craft traditions and modernity in early film.
Opening up valuable new perspectives on the history of film as art, Askari links American ... Read more
Focusing on early cinema's relationship with the pictorial arts, this pioneering study explores how cinema's emergence was grounded in theories of picture composition, craft and arts education – from magic lantern experiments in 1890s New York through to early Hollywood feature films in the 1920s.
Challenging received notions that the advent of cinema was a celebration of mechanisation and a radical rejection of nineteenth-century traditions of representation, Kaveh Askari instead emphasises the overlap between craft traditions and modernity in early film.
Opening up valuable new perspectives on the history of film as art, Askari links American ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
182
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Cultural Histories of Cinema
Condition
New
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844576968
SKU
V9781844576968
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About Kaveh Askari
Kaveh Askari is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Western Washington University, USA. He is the author of numerous articles on early cinema.
Reviews for Making Movies into Art: Picture Craft from the Magic Lantern to Early Hollywood
A major contribution to film history and theory, and film's relation to other media.
University of Chicago
Tom Gunning
This enterprising work will ultimately transform our understanding of cinema's early artistic tendencies. Kaveh Askari's examination of how film intersected with academia, the lyceum circuit, and the art studio brings to light institutional connections that reveal novel functions ... Read more
University of Chicago
Tom Gunning
This enterprising work will ultimately transform our understanding of cinema's early artistic tendencies. Kaveh Askari's examination of how film intersected with academia, the lyceum circuit, and the art studio brings to light institutional connections that reveal novel functions ... Read more