Description
This book introduces the reader to the study of cinema as a series of aesthetic, technological, cultural, ideological and economic debates while exploring new and challenging approaches to the subject. It explores the period 1895 to 1914 when cinema established itself as the leading form of visual culture among rapidly expanding global media, emerging from a rich tradition of scientific, economic, entertainment and educational practices and quickly developing as a worldwide institution.
Author: Simon Popple, Joe Kember
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Published: 03/24/2004
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 7.90h x 6.36w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781903364581
ISBN10: 1903364582
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film | History & Criticism
Author: Simon Popple, Joe Kember
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Published: 03/24/2004
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 7.90h x 6.36w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781903364581
ISBN10: 1903364582
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film | History & Criticism
About the Author
Simon Popple is Principal Lecturer in Media History at the University of Teesside, and is joint editor of Living Pictures: The Journal of the Popular and Projected Image Before 1914.Joe Kember is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Teesside and specializes in the study of late nineteenth-century popular entertainment and visual culture.