TY  - BOOK
AU  - Auerbach,Jonathan
TI  - Body shots: early cinema's incarnations 
SN  - 9780520941199
AV  - PN1995.9.B62 A84 2007eb
U1  - 791.43/656109041 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Human body in motion pictures
KW  - Silent films
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Corps humain au cinéma
KW  - Films muets
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS
KW  - Film & Video
KW  - Reference
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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