A Companion to Early Cinema

Name: A Companion to Early Cinema
Brand: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

A Companion to Early CinemaAuthor(s): Andr Gaudreault, Nicolas Dulac, Santiago Hidalgo\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9781444332315, 978-1444332315\nSynopsis\nA COMPANION TO EARLY CINEMA This collection of essays by early cinema scholars from Europe and North America offers manifold perspectives on early cinema fiction which perfectly reflect the state of international research. \n\n Martin Loiperdinger, Universitaet Trier \n\nA fabulous selection of first-rate articles! \n\n Rick Altman, University of Iowa \n\nOne of the most challenging books in recent film studies: in it, early cinema is both a historical object and a contemporary presence. As in a great novel, we can retrace the adventures of the past the films, styles, discourses, and receptions that made cinema the breakthrough reality it was in its first decades. But we can also come to appreciate how much of this reality is still present in our digita.