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
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xii, 200 pages) : illustrations
9780520941199, 9781435611450, 9781282772274, 9786612772276, 0520941195, 1435611454, 1282772279, 6612772271
182574262
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