Book Description
A classic account of the prehistory and early years of cinema in Britain. This new paperback edition provides a fascinating account of the rich and hitherto hidden history of the origins of film.
Author : Michael Chanan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 25,97 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1134816804
A classic account of the prehistory and early years of cinema in Britain. This new paperback edition provides a fascinating account of the rich and hitherto hidden history of the origins of film.
Author : Michael Chanan
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Film has taught us to see the world afresh, but it could not picture its own birth. In "The Dream That Kicks," Michael Chanan puts forward a theory of invention to show how cinematography was a product of the growing forces of nineteenth century capitalist production and traces the development of British cinema from its mystical origins in music halls to its emergence as a cultural commodity. "The Dream That Kicks" combines astute textual analysis of individual films with detailed archival work of the industry. It situates cinema within its wider context to produce a thought-provoking exploration of its cultural and ideological implications. This paperback edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to take into account orhte recent work on early cinema.
Author : Channel Four (Great Britain)
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,5 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN :
Author : Michael Chanan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 1980
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Brian Winston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 26,18 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1838718478
This text examines the complex forces pushing and constraining technological developments in cinema. It contests the view that technological advance is simply the result of scientific progress. Rather, the author argues that social forces control the media technology agenda at every stage.
Author : Chong Lee
Publisher : Black Belt Communications
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 9780897500609
Explains how to execute single kicks, complex kicks, sitting kicks, and take downs.
Author : Nicholas Smith
Publisher : Crown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 29,30 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0451498135
A cultural history of sneakers, tracing the footprint of one of our most iconic fashions across sports, business, pop culture, and American identity When the athletic shoe graduated from the beaches and croquet courts of the wealthy elite to streetwear ubiquity, its journey through the heart of American life was just getting started. In this rollicking narrative, Nicholas K. Smith carries us through the long twentieth century as sneakers became the totem of subcultures from California skateboarders to New York rappers, the cause of gang violence and riots, the heart of a global economic controversy, the lynchpin in a quest to turn big sports into big business, and the muse of high fashion. Studded with larger-than-life mavericks and unexpected visionaries—from genius rubber inventor, Charles Goodyear, to road-warrior huckster Chuck Taylor, to the feuding brothers who founded Adidas and Puma, to the track coach who changed the sport by pouring rubber in his wife's waffle iron—Kicks introduces us to the sneaker's surprisingly influential, enduring, and evolving legacy.
Author : Marta Braun
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 12,58 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226071756
A complete, illustrated survey of Etienne-Jules Marey's work that investigates the far reaching effects of her inventions on stream-of-consciousness literature, psychoanalysis, Bergsonian philosophy, and the art of cubists and futurists.
Author : G. Beegan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 37,29 MB
Release : 2008-01-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 0230589928
The Mass Image situates the creation of the first photographically illustrated magazines within the social relations of the emerging popular culture of late Victorian London. It demonstrates how photomechanical reproduction allowed the illustrated press to envisage modern life on a much more intense scale than ever before.
Author : Mary Ann Doane
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 31,26 MB
Release : 2002-12-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0674263030
Hailed as the permanent record of fleeting moments, the cinema emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century as an unprecedented means of capturing time--and this at a moment when disciplines from physics to philosophy, and historical trends from industrialization to the expansion of capitalism, were transforming the very idea of time. In a work that itself captures and reconfigures the passing moments of art, history, and philosophy, Mary Ann Doane shows how the cinema, representing the singular instant of chance and ephemerality in the face of the increasing rationalization and standardization of the day, participated in the structuring of time and contingency in capitalist modernity. At this book's heart is the cinema's essential paradox: temporal continuity conveyed through "stopped time," the rapid succession of still frames or frozen images. Doane explores the role of this paradox, and of notions of the temporal indeterminacy and instability of an image, in shaping not just cinematic time but also modern ideas about continuity and discontinuity, archivability, contingency and determinism, and temporal irreversibility. A compelling meditation on the status of cinematic knowledge, her book is also an inquiry into the very heart and soul of modernity.