Reading the Cinematograph pairs eight short stories about the cinema--including works by such notables as Rudyard Kipling and Sax Rohmer--with eight new essays from leading film and literary scholars like Tom Gunning and Andrew Higson to reveal the influence that film and fiction had on one another in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Reading the Cinematograph pairs eight short stories about the cinema--including works by such notables as Rudyard Kipling and Sax Rohmer--wi...
From the Middle Ages onwards, writers, artists and composers became self-consciously aware of the vast potential for external references to enrich their works. By evoking canonical texts and their producers from the distant or more recent past, authors demonstrated their respect for tradition while showcasing their own merits. In so doing they also manipulated the memory of their readers. This volume represents a multidisciplinary approach to the themes of citation and intertextual play. It is also an exploration of the role of memory in the cultural production of the late Middle Ages and...
From the Middle Ages onwards, writers, artists and composers became self-consciously aware of the vast potential for external references to enrich the...
Charles Urban: Pioneering the Non-Fiction Film in Britain and America, 1897-1925 is the 2014 winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award.Charles Urban examines the career and legacy of the eponymous Anglo-American film producer. Urban is a well-known and crucial figure in early film history for his development of Kinemacolor, the world's first successful natural color moving picture system. But Urban's influence was even more far-reaching, according to Luke McKernan. As McKernan reveals, Urban's deep belief in film as an educational tool led him to become an...
Charles Urban: Pioneering the Non-Fiction Film in Britain and America, 1897-1925 is the 2014 winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book ...
Creating Celluloid War Memorials for the British Empire looks at the British Instructional Film company and its production of war re-enactments and documentaries during the mid to late 1920s. It is both a work of cinema history and a study of the public s memory of World War I. As Mark Connelly shows, these films, made in the decade following the end of the war, helped to shape the way in which that war was remembered, and may be understood as microhistories that reveal vital information about perceptions of the Great War, national and imperial identities, the role of cinema as a...
Creating Celluloid War Memorials for the British Empire looks at the British Instructional Film company and its production of war re-enactments...
