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Body shots : early cinema's incarnations

Argues that it was the human form in motion that most profoundly shaped early cinema. Situating his discussion in a political and historical context, the author begins his analysis with films that reveal striking anxieties and preoccupations about persons on public display. It also considers twentieth-century American incarnation of cinema itself
eBook, English, ©2007
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xii, 200 pages) : illustrations
9780520941199, 9781435611450, 9781282772274, 9786612772276, 0520941195, 1435611454, 1282772279, 6612772271
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Body, movement, space
Looking in: McKinley at home
Looking out: visualizing self-consciousness ; Interlude: the vocal gesture: sounding the origins of cinema
Chasing film narrative
Windows 1900; or, Life of an American fireman
The stilled body
English