Body shots : early cinema's incarnations / Jonathan Auerbach.

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Auerbach, Jonathan, 1954-

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520941199
0520941195
9781435611450
1435611454
1282772279
9781282772274
9786612772276
6612772271

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Body shots.DDC classification:

791.43/656109041 22

LOC classification:

PN1995.9.B62 A84 2007eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-193) and index.

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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.

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