Body shots : early cinema's incarnations /
Auerbach, Jonathan, 1954-
Body shots : early cinema's incarnations / Jonathan Auerbach. - Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007. - 1 online resource (xii, 200 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-193) and index.
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.
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.
English.
9780520941199 (electronic bk.) 0520941195 (electronic bk.) 9781435611450 (electronic bk.) 1435611454 (electronic bk.) 1282772279 9781282772274 9786612772276 6612772271 (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
22573/cttt4zwz JSTOR
Human body in motion pictures.
Silent films--History and criticism.
Corps humain au cinéma.
Films muets--Histoire et critique.
PERFORMING ARTS--Film & Video--Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS--Film & Video--General.
Human body in motion pictures.
Silent films.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN1995.9.B62 / A84 2007eb
791.43/656109041
PN1995.9.B62 / (INTERNET)
Body shots : early cinema's incarnations / Jonathan Auerbach. - Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007. - 1 online resource (xii, 200 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-193) and index.
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.
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.
English.
9780520941199 (electronic bk.) 0520941195 (electronic bk.) 9781435611450 (electronic bk.) 1435611454 (electronic bk.) 1282772279 9781282772274 9786612772276 6612772271 (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
22573/cttt4zwz JSTOR
Human body in motion pictures.
Silent films--History and criticism.
Corps humain au cinéma.
Films muets--Histoire et critique.
PERFORMING ARTS--Film & Video--Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS--Film & Video--General.
Human body in motion pictures.
Silent films.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN1995.9.B62 / A84 2007eb
791.43/656109041
PN1995.9.B62 / (INTERNET)